New
Moon ♊ 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 1 day young Moon is in ♉ Taurus.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 22 May 2020 at 17:39 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 ♉ Taurus
Moon is leaving the last ∠1° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♊ Gemini later.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1799" and ∠1895".
Strawberry Moon after 14 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2020 after 14 days on 5 June 2020 at 19:12.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 30 May 2020 at 03:30
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 5 June 2020 at 19:12
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 13 June 2020 at 06:24
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 21 June 2020 at 06:41
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 252 / 1205
At 17:39 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 252 of Meeus index or 1205 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.54 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 3 minutes. It is 2 hours and 11 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 19 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 44 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠229.8°
The true anomaly is ∠229.8°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠263.8°.
Moon after apogee
4 days after point of apogee on 18 May 2020 at 07:45 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 3 June 2020 at 03:36 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 398 530 km
The Moon is 398 530 km (247 635 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 11 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 364 366 km (226 407 mi).
Moon before ascending node
12 days after descending node on 10 May 2020 at 09:01 in ♐ Sagittarius. 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 24 May 2020 at 21:34 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
24 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
11 days since the previous standstill on 11 May 2020 at 06:13 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-23.998°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠24.055° at the point of next northern standstill on 25 May 2020 at 21:16 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.
