Waxing
Crescent ♋ 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 2 July 2038 at 13:32 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 ∠10° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1835" and ∠1887".
Buck Moon after 13 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2038 after 13 days on 16 July 2038 at 11:48.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 9 July 2038 at 16:00
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 16 July 2038 at 11:48
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 24 July 2038 at 05:40
- New Moon in Leo ♌ on 1 August 2038 at 00:40
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 476 / 1429
At 13:32 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 476 of Meeus index or 1429 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.46 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 8 minutes. It is 1 hour and 36 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 36 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 33 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠259.5°
The true anomaly is ∠259.5°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠293.3°.
Moon after apogee
5 days after point of apogee on 26 June 2038 at 12:55 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 11 July 2038 at 19:32 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 390 600 km
The Moon is 390 600 km (242 708 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 9 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 368 535 km (228 997 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♋ Cancer at 12:47 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 12 days later on 15 July 2038 at 11:58 in ♑ Capricorn.
New draconic month
At 12:47 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon at northern standstill
At 16:20 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠23.041°. Over the next 13 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-23.036° at the point of next standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 15 July 2038 at 15:12.
Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy
The Moon is in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.
