Waxing
Crescent ♋ Cancer
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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 less than 1 day young Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 5 June 2016 at 03:00 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 ∠20° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1939" and ∠1891".
Strawberry Moon after 14 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2016 after 14 days on 20 June 2016 at 11:02.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 12 June 2016 at 08:10
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 20 June 2016 at 11:02
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 27 June 2016 at 18:19
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 4 July 2016 at 11:01
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 203 / 1156
At 03:00 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 203 of Meeus index or 1156 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.33 days
29 days, 8 hours and 1 minute is the length of new lunation 203. It is 1 hour and 43 minutes shorter than next lunation 204 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 43 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 26 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠27.6°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠27.6°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠48.9°. 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 after perigee
2 days after point of perigee on 3 June 2016 at 10:55 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 10 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 15 June 2016 at 12:00 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 369 701 km
Moon is 369 701 km (229 722 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 10 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 405 022 km (251 669 mi).
Moon after descending node
6 days after its descending node on 30 May 2016 at 04:45 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 6 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 11 June 2016 at 22:20 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
20 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before northern standstill
12 days after previous South standstill on 24 May 2016 at 11:16 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-18.539°. Next day the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠18.575° in the next northern standstill on 6 June 2016 at 09:13 in ♋ Cancer.
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.