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 ♋ Cancer.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 27 June 2014 at 08:09 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 ♋ Cancer
Moon is passing about ∠8° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1786" and ∠1887".
Buck Moon after 14 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2014 after 14 days on 12 July 2014 at 11:25.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 5 July 2014 at 11:59
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 12 July 2014 at 11:25
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 19 July 2014 at 02:08
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 26 July 2014 at 22:42
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 179 / 1132
At 08:08 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 179 of Meeus index or 1132 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.61 days
29 days, 14 hours and 33 minutes is the length of new lunation 179. It is 58 minutes shorter than next lunation 180 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 49 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 14 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠144.1°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠144.1°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠169.2°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon before apogee
12 days after point of perigee on 15 June 2014 at 03:34 in ♑ Capricorn. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 3 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 30 June 2014 at 19:09 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 401 283 km
Moon is 401 283 km (249 346 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 3 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 405 932 km (252 234 mi).
Moon after descending node
5 days after its descending node on 21 June 2014 at 20:30 in ♈ Aries, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 8 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 6 July 2014 at 09:50 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
18 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
1 day after previous North standstill on 26 June 2014 at 08:34 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠19.035°. Next 13 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-18.982° in the next southern standstill on 10 July 2014 at 17:29 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.