Waxing
Crescent ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
New Moon
New Moon is the lunar phase on . Surface of the Moon disc is not illuminated. The 1 day young Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 17 June 2004 at 20:27 UTC.
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Moon phase and lunation details
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises at sunrise and sets at sunset. It's part facing the Earth is completely in shadow.
Moon in ♋ Cancer
Moon is passing about ∠5° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1888".
Buck Moon after 13 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2004 after 13 days on 2 July 2004 at 11:09.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 25 June 2004 at 19:08
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 2 July 2004 at 11:09
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 9 July 2004 at 07:34
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 17 July 2004 at 11:24
Spring tide
There is high New Moon ocean tide on this date. Combined Sun and Moon gravitational tidal force working on Earth is strong, because of the Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.
New lunation 55 / 1008
At 20:27 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 55 of Meeus index or 1008 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.62 days
29 days, 14 hours and 57 minutes is the length of new lunation 55. It is 57 minutes longer than next lunation 56 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 13 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 50 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠181.6°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠181.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠205.1°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon after apogee
1 day after point of apogee on 17 June 2004 at 16:02 in ♊ Gemini. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 13 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 1 July 2004 at 23:00 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 405 184 km
Moon is 405 184 km (251 770 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 13 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 357 450 km (222 109 mi).
Moon after ascending node
4 days after its ascending node on 13 June 2004 at 22:49 in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 9 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 28 June 2004 at 08:37 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
4 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon in northern standstill
At 15:35 on this date the Moon is meeting its North standstill point, when it will reach northern declination of ∠27.532°. Next 13 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite southward direction to face South declination of ∠-27.538° in its southern standstill point on 2 July 2004 at 03:43 in ♑ Capricorn.
Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy
The Moon is in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun on this date and this alignment forms Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.