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Moon phase on 16 June 2015 Tuesday is New Moon, 1 day young Moon is in Gemini.

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Lunar calendar 2015 | June 2015

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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 16 June 2015 at 14:05 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 ∠24° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.

Apparent angular diameter

Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1867" and ∠1889".

Buck Moon after 15 days

Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2015 after 15 days on 2 July 2015 at 02:20.

Upcoming main Moon phases

  • First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 24 June 2015 at 11:03
  • Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 2 July 2015 at 02:20
  • Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 8 July 2015 at 20:24
  • New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 16 July 2015 at 01:24

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 191 / 1144

At 14:05 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 191 of Meeus index or 1144 from Brown series.

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Synodic month length 29.47 days

The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 19 minutes. It is 2 hours and 10 minutes shorter 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 shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 25 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 44 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit position on

True anomaly ∠78.1°

The true anomaly is ∠78.1°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠112.8°.

Moon after perigee

6 days after point of perigee on 10 June 2015 at 04:39 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 23 June 2015 at 17:01 in ♍ Virgo.

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Distance to Moon 383 860 km

The Moon is 383 860 km (238 520 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 7 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 134 km (251 117 mi).

Moon after descending node

5 days after descending node on 10 June 2015 at 23:30 in ♈ Aries. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 8 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 24 June 2015 at 17:23 in ♍ Virgo.

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Draconic month

18 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.

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Moon at northern standstill

At 19:47 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠18.457°. Over the next 14 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-18.445° at the point of next standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 1 July 2015 at 06:48.

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Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy

The Moon is in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.

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