Waxing
Crescent ♊ 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 less than 1 day young Moon is in ♉ Taurus.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 10 May 2013 at 00:29 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 ♉ Taurus
Moon is passing about ∠25° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1783" and ∠1900".
Flower Moon after 14 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2013 after 14 days on 25 May 2013 at 04:25.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 18 May 2013 at 04:35
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 25 May 2013 at 04:25
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 31 May 2013 at 18:58
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 8 June 2013 at 15:56
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 165 / 1118
At 00:28 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 165 of Meeus index or 1118 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.64 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 28 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2013. It is 10 minutes longer 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 44 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 19 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠143.3°
The true anomaly is ∠143.3°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠168.8°.
Moon before perigee
12 days after point of perigee on 27 April 2013 at 19:48 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 13 May 2013 at 13:31 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 402 034 km
The Moon is 402 034 km (249 812 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 827 km (252 169 mi).
Moon after descending node
1 day after descending node on 9 May 2013 at 19:12 in ♉ Taurus. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 13 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 24 May 2013 at 00:40 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
13 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
11 days since the previous standstill on 28 April 2013 at 19:05 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-20.170°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠20.170° at the point of next northern standstill on 12 May 2013 at 12:30 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.
