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 25 June 2006 at 16:05 UTC.
Moon phases for next 7 days
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Tuesday Tue
Wednesday Wed
Thursday Thu
Friday Fri
Saturday Sat
Sunday Sun
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 is entering ♋ Cancer
Moon is passing first ∠2° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1844" and ∠1888".
Buck Moon after 15 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2006 after 15 days on 11 July 2006 at 03:02.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 3 July 2006 at 16:37
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 11 July 2006 at 03:02
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 17 July 2006 at 19:13
- New Moon in Leo ♌ on 25 July 2006 at 04:31
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 80 / 1033
At 16:05 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 80 of Meeus index or 1033 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.52 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 26 minutes. It is 2 hours and 13 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 18 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 51 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠97.5°
The true anomaly is ∠97.5°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠131.2°.
Moon before perigee
8 days after point of perigee on 16 June 2006 at 17:07 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 1 July 2006 at 20:12 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 388 679 km
The Moon is 388 679 km (241 514 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 6 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 448 km (251 312 mi).
Moon after ascending node
6 days after ascending node on 18 June 2006 at 19:11 in ♓ Pisces. 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 2 July 2006 at 14:19 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
6 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon at northern standstill
At 08:40 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠28.444°. Over the next 14 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-28.477° at the point of next standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 9 July 2006 at 18:49.
Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy
The Moon is in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.
