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 6 July 2005 at 12:03 UTC.
Moon phases for next 7 days
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Friday Fri
Saturday Sat
Sunday Sun
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Tuesday Tue
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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 ∠14° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1776" and ∠1887".
Buck Moon after 14 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2005 after 14 days on 21 July 2005 at 11:00.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 14 July 2005 at 15:20
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 21 July 2005 at 11:00
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 28 July 2005 at 03:19
- New Moon in Leo ♌ on 5 August 2005 at 03:05
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 68 / 1021
At 12:02 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 68 of Meeus index or 1021 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.63 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 2 minutes. It is 39 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 18 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 45 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠158.8°
The true anomaly is ∠158.8°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠181.9°.
Moon before perigee
13 days after point of perigee on 23 June 2005 at 11:49 in ♑ Capricorn. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 8 July 2005 at 17:39 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 403 653 km
The Moon is 403 653 km (250 818 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 363 km (252 502 mi).
Moon after ascending node
6 days after ascending node on 29 June 2005 at 16:29 in ♈ Aries. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 7 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 14 July 2005 at 06:35 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
6 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
1 day since the previous standstill on 5 July 2005 at 13:08 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.208°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 13 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.265° at the point of next southern standstill on 19 July 2005 at 17:52 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy
The Moon is in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.
