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 less than 1 day young Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 12 June 2010 at 11:15 UTC.
Moon phases for next 7 days
Sunday Sun
Monday Mon
Tuesday Tue
Wednesday Wed
Thursday Thu
Friday Fri
Saturday Sat
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 ∠22° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1911" and ∠1889".
Strawberry Moon after 13 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2010 after 13 days on 26 June 2010 at 11:30.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 19 June 2010 at 04:30
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 26 June 2010 at 11:30
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 4 July 2010 at 14:35
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 11 July 2010 at 19:40
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 129 / 1082
At 11:15 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 129 of Meeus index or 1082 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.35 days
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 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 shorter than mean
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.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠311.3°
The true anomaly is ∠311.3°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠332.7°.
Moon before apogee
8 days after 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.
Distance to Moon 375 063 km
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).
Moon before descending node
12 days after ascending node on 30 May 2010 at 18:07 in ♑ Capricorn. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 13 June 2010 at 21:54 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
12 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon at northern standstill
At 07:06 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠25.030°. Over the next 12 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-25.038° at the point of next standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 25 June 2010 at 05:09.
Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy
The Moon is in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.
