Waxing
Crescent ♊ Gemini
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 ♊ Gemini.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 21 May 2031 at 07:17 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 ♊ Gemini
Moon is passing first ∠2° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1789" and ∠1896".
Strawberry Moon after 14 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2031 after 14 days on 5 June 2031 at 11:58.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 29 May 2031 at 11:20
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 5 June 2031 at 11:58
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 12 June 2031 at 02:20
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 19 June 2031 at 22:25
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 388 / 1341
At 07:17 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 388 of Meeus index or 1341 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.63 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 7 minutes. It is 9 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 23 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 40 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠139.8°
The true anomaly is ∠139.8°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠165.9°.
Moon before perigee
12 days after point of perigee on 9 May 2031 at 07:28 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 3 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 25 May 2031 at 02:08 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 400 573 km
The Moon is 400 573 km (248 905 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 723 km (252 105 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♉ Taurus at 03:26 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 13 days later on 4 June 2031 at 09:20 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
13 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
12 days since the previous standstill on 9 May 2031 at 07:56 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-21.092°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠21.091° at the point of next northern standstill on 22 May 2031 at 19:41 in ♊ Gemini.
Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy
The Moon is in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.
