Waxing
Crescent ♌ Leo
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 4 July 2027 at 03:02 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 in ♋ Cancer
Moon is passing about ∠18° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1969" and ∠1887".
Buck Moon after 14 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2027 after 14 days on 18 July 2027 at 15:45.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 10 July 2027 at 18:39
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 18 July 2027 at 15:45
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 26 July 2027 at 16:55
- New Moon in Leo ♌ on 2 August 2027 at 10:05
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 340 / 1293
At 03:02 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 340 of Meeus index or 1293 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.29 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 3 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2027. It is 33 minutes shorter 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 41 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 28 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠347.4°
The true anomaly is ∠347.4°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠2.6°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 20:55. It is 12 days after previous apogee on 22 June 2027 at 05:08 in ♒ Aquarius. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 14 days, until point of next apogee on 19 July 2027 at 11:52 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 358 284 km
This perigee Moon is 358 284 km (222 627 mi) away from Earth. It is 4 224 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 12 072 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon before descending node
11 days after ascending node on 22 June 2027 at 18:25 in ♒ Aquarius. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 6 July 2027 at 02:14 in ♌ Leo.
Draconic month
11 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
1 day since the previous standstill on 2 July 2027 at 19:52 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.165°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.184° at the point of next southern standstill on 15 July 2027 at 20:16 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy
The Moon is in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.
