New Moon on . The illuminated surface of the Moon is 0%. Lunar cycle is less than 1 day young.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 12 June 2010 at 11:15 UTC.
The moon rises at sunrise and sets at sunset. It's part facing the Earth is completely in shadow.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠22° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2010 after 13 days on 26 June 2010 at 11:30.
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.
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1911" and ∠1889".
At 11:15 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 129 of Meeus index or lunation 1082 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 26 minutes. It is 58 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 18 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 51 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠311.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠332.7°.
8 days since point of apogee on 3 June 2010 at 16:50 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 15 June 2010 at 14:54 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 375 063 km (233 053 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 365 937 km (227 383 mi).
12 days after ascending node on 30 May 2010 at 18:07 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 13 June 2010 at 21:54 in ♋ Cancer.
At 07:06 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠25.030°. Over the upcoming 12 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-25.038° at the point of next southern standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 25 June 2010 at 05:09.
12 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
The Moon is in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.
Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com
Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov