Waxing
Crescent ♊ Gemini
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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 ♉ Taurus.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 25 May 2017 at 19:44 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 is entering ♉ Taurus
Moon is passing first ∠0° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1971" and ∠1894".
Strawberry Moon after 15 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2017 after 15 days on 9 June 2017 at 13:10.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 1 June 2017 at 12:42
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 9 June 2017 at 13:10
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 17 June 2017 at 11:33
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 24 June 2017 at 02:31
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 215 / 1168
At 19:44 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 215 of Meeus index or 1168 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.28 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 6 hours and 46 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2017. It is 29 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 5 hours and 58 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 11 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠356°
The true anomaly is ∠356°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠11°.
Moon before apogee
12 days after point of apogee on 12 May 2017 at 19:51 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 26 May 2017 at 01:23 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 363 676 km
The Moon is 363 676 km (225 978 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 210 km (221 960 mi).
Moon before ascending node
6 days after descending node on 19 May 2017 at 01:30 in ♒ Aquarius. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 31 May 2017 at 11:56 in ♌ Leo.
Draconic month
21 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
10 days since the previous standstill on 14 May 2017 at 20:29 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.302°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.362° at the point of next northern standstill on 27 May 2017 at 23:36 in ♋ Cancer.
Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy
The Moon is in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.
