New
Moon* ♋ 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 1 day young Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 29 June 2022 at 02:52 UTC.
Moon phases for next 7 days
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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 ∠0° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1887".
Buck Moon after 15 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2022 after 15 days on 13 July 2022 at 18:37.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 29 June 2022 at 02:52
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 7 July 2022 at 02:14
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 13 July 2022 at 18:37
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 20 July 2022 at 14:18
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 277 / 1230
At 11:30 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 277 of Meeus index or 1230 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.64 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 22 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2022. It is 19 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 38 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 25 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠155.2°
The true anomaly is ∠155.2°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠178.8°.
Moon before perigee
13 days after point of perigee on 14 June 2022 at 23:21 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 29 June 2022 at 06:08 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 405 268 km
The Moon is 405 268 km (251 822 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 581 km (252 638 mi).
Moon after ascending node
3 days after ascending node on 25 June 2022 at 07:10 in ♉ Taurus. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 9 July 2022 at 17:28 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
3 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
13 days since the previous standstill on 15 June 2022 at 10:59 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.924°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠26.900° at the point of next northern standstill on 29 June 2022 at 04:06 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.
