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 11 July 2010 at 19:40 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 ♋ Cancer
Moon is passing about ∠15° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1941" and ∠1887".
Buck Moon after 14 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2010 after 14 days on 26 July 2010 at 01:37.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 18 July 2010 at 10:11
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 26 July 2010 at 01:37
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 3 August 2010 at 04:59
- New Moon in Leo ♌ on 10 August 2010 at 03:08
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 130 / 1083
At 19:40 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 130 of Meeus index or 1083 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.31 days
29 days, 7 hours and 28 minutes is the length of new lunation 130. It is 6 minutes longer than next lunation 131 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 5 hours and 16 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 53 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠332.7°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠332.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠349.5°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon before perigee
10 days after point of apogee on 1 July 2010 at 10:12 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next day, until it get to the point of next perigee on 13 July 2010 at 11:21 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 369 293 km
Moon is 369 293 km (229 468 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next day until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 361 116 km (224 387 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♋ Cancer at 07:30 on this date, it crosses the ecliptic from North to South. Moon will follow the southern part of its orbit for the next 12 days to meet ascending node on 24 July 2010 at 07:59 in ♑ Capricorn.
Draconic month
14 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
1 day after previous North standstill on 9 July 2010 at 16:50 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠25.043°. Next 10 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-25.034° in the next southern standstill on 22 July 2010 at 11:12 in ♐ Sagittarius.
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.