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 ♊ Gemini.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 3 June 2019 at 10:02 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 ∠14° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1888" and ∠1891".
Strawberry Moon after 13 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2019 after 13 days on 17 June 2019 at 08:31.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 10 June 2019 at 05:59
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 17 June 2019 at 08:31
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 25 June 2019 at 09:46
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 2 July 2019 at 19:16
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 240 / 1193
At 10:02 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 240 of Meeus index or 1193 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.38 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 14 minutes. It is 1 hour and 18 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 30 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 39 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠296.1°
The true anomaly is ∠296.1°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠321.4°.
Moon before apogee
7 days after point of apogee on 26 May 2019 at 13:27 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 7 June 2019 at 23:21 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 379 662 km
The Moon is 379 662 km (235 911 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 4 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 368 508 km (228 980 mi).
Moon before ascending node
11 days after descending node on 22 May 2019 at 19:12 in ♑ Capricorn. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 2 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 5 June 2019 at 22:46 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
24 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
12 days since the previous standstill on 22 May 2019 at 06:41 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-22.313°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠22.361° at the point of next northern standstill on 5 June 2019 at 12:58 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.
