Waxing
Crescent ♋ Cancer
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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 ♊ Gemini.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 6 June 2005 at 21:55 UTC.
Moon phases for next 7 days
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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 ♊ Gemini
Moon is passing about ∠23° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1793" and ∠1890".
Strawberry Moon after 14 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2005 after 14 days on 22 June 2005 at 04:14.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 15 June 2005 at 01:22
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 22 June 2005 at 04:14
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 28 June 2005 at 18:23
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 6 July 2005 at 12:03
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 67 / 1020
At 21:55 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 67 of Meeus index or 1020 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.59 days
29 days, 14 hours and 7 minutes is the length of new lunation 67. It is 55 minutes shorter than next lunation 68 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 23 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 40 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠131.2°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠131.2°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠158.8°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon before apogee
12 days after point of perigee on 26 May 2005 at 10:43 in ♑ Capricorn. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 3 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 11 June 2005 at 06:11 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 399 844 km
Moon is 399 844 km (248 452 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 3 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 405 506 km (251 970 mi).
Moon after ascending node
4 days after its ascending node on 2 June 2005 at 15:14 in ♈ Aries, 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 17 June 2005 at 03:59 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
4 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon before northern standstill
12 days after previous South standstill on 25 May 2005 at 23:03 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-28.270°. Next day the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠28.224° in the next northern standstill on 8 June 2005 at 07:36 in ♋ Cancer.
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.