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Crescent ♋ Cancer
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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 10 June 2021 at 10:53 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 ∠1777" and ∠1890".
Strawberry Moon after 14 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2021 after 14 days on 24 June 2021 at 18:40.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 18 June 2021 at 03:54
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 24 June 2021 at 18:40
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 1 July 2021 at 21:11
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 10 July 2021 at 01:17
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 265 / 1218
At 10:53 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 265 of Meeus index or 1218 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.6 days
29 days, 14 hours and 24 minutes is the length of new lunation 265. It is 1 hour and 50 minutes longer than next lunation 266 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 40 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 23 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠202.3°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠202.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠230.1°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon after apogee
2 days after point of apogee on 8 June 2021 at 02:27 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 12 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 23 June 2021 at 09:58 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 403 431 km
Moon is 403 431 km (250 680 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 12 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 359 960 km (223 669 mi).
Moon after ascending node
1 day after its ascending node on 9 June 2021 at 16:42 in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 12 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 23 June 2021 at 06:07 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
1 day after beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon before northern standstill
12 days after previous South standstill on 28 May 2021 at 19:21 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-25.647°. Next day the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠25.640° in the next northern standstill on 12 June 2021 at 04:11 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.