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Crescent ♌ Leo
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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 ♋ Cancer.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 10 July 2021 at 01:17 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 ♋ Cancer
Moon is passing about ∠24° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1810" and ∠1887".
Buck Moon after 13 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2021 after 13 days on 24 July 2021 at 02:37.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 17 July 2021 at 10:11
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 24 July 2021 at 02:37
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 31 July 2021 at 13:16
- New Moon in Leo ♌ on 8 August 2021 at 13:50
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 266 / 1219
At 01:17 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 266 of Meeus index or 1219 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.52 days
29 days, 12 hours and 34 minutes is the length of new lunation 266. It is 1 hour and 32 minutes longer than next lunation 267 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 11 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 59 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠230.1°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠230.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠264.3°. 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
4 days after point of apogee on 5 July 2021 at 14:48 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 10 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 21 July 2021 at 10:30 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 395 924 km
Moon is 395 924 km (246 016 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 10 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 364 520 km (226 502 mi).
Moon after ascending node
3 days after its ascending node on 6 July 2021 at 22:41 in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 10 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 20 July 2021 at 13:22 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
3 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
1 day after previous North standstill on 9 July 2021 at 10:05 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠25.622°. Next 12 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-25.643° in the next southern standstill on 22 July 2021 at 15:11 in ♑ Capricorn.
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.