New
Moon ♊ Gemini
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 ♊ Gemini.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 1 June 2011 at 21:03 UTC.
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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 ♊ Gemini
Moon is passing about ∠6° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1816" and ∠1892".
Strawberry Moon after 14 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2011 after 14 days on 15 June 2011 at 20:13.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 9 June 2011 at 02:11
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 15 June 2011 at 20:13
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 23 June 2011 at 11:48
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 1 July 2011 at 08:54
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 141 / 1094
At 21:03 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 141 of Meeus index or 1094 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.49 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 51 minutes. It is 2 hours and 5 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 53 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 16 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠248.4°
The true anomaly is ∠248.4°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠283.1°.
Moon after apogee
5 days after point of apogee on 27 May 2011 at 09:58 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 12 June 2011 at 01:42 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 394 691 km
The Moon is 394 691 km (245 250 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 367 188 km (228 160 mi).
Moon before descending node
13 days after ascending node on 19 May 2011 at 09:03 in ♐ Sagittarius. 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 2 June 2011 at 20:21 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
13 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
13 days since the previous standstill on 18 May 2011 at 23:26 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-23.403°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠23.393° at the point of next northern standstill on 2 June 2011 at 09:54 in ♊ Gemini.
Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy
The Moon is in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.
