Waxing
Crescent ♋ Cancer
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 ♋ Cancer.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 21 June 2020 at 06:41 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 ♋ Cancer
Moon is passing first ∠3° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1847" and ∠1888".
Buck Moon after 13 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2020 after 13 days on 5 July 2020 at 04:44.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 28 June 2020 at 08:16
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 5 July 2020 at 04:44
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 12 July 2020 at 23:29
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 20 July 2020 at 17:33
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 253 / 1206
At 06:41 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 253 of Meeus index or 1206 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.45 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 52 minutes. It is 1 hour and 43 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 1 hour and 53 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 17 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠263.8°
The true anomaly is ∠263.8°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠296.9°.
Moon after apogee
6 days after point of apogee on 15 June 2020 at 00:56 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 30 June 2020 at 02:09 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 388 138 km
The Moon is 388 138 km (241 178 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 368 958 km (229 260 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♊ Gemini at 04:24 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 12 days later on 4 July 2020 at 03:18 in ♐ Sagittarius.
New draconic month
At 04:24 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon before northern standstill
13 days since the previous standstill on 7 June 2020 at 16:22 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-24.069°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠24.070° at the point of next northern standstill on 22 June 2020 at 03:56 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.