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 less than 1 day young Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 7 June 2043 at 10:35 UTC.
Moon phases for next 7 days
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Tuesday Tue
Wednesday Wed
Thursday Thu
Friday Fri
Saturday Sat
Sunday Sun
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 ♊ Gemini
Moon is passing about ∠17° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1962" and ∠1890".
Strawberry Moon after 15 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2043 after 15 days on 22 June 2043 at 14:20.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 14 June 2043 at 10:19
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 22 June 2043 at 14:20
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 30 June 2043 at 02:53
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 6 July 2043 at 17:51
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 537 / 1490
At 10:35 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 537 of Meeus index or 1490 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.3 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 16 minutes. It is 1 hour and 16 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 28 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 41 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠15.9°
The true anomaly is ∠15.9°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠33.6°.
Moon after perigee
1 day after point of perigee on 6 June 2043 at 11:59 in ♊ Gemini. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 18 June 2043 at 23:28 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 365 320 km
The Moon is 365 320 km (226 999 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 646 km (252 057 mi).
Moon after ascending node
4 days after ascending node on 2 June 2043 at 17:02 in ♓ Pisces. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 7 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 15 June 2043 at 09:52 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
4 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
12 days since the previous standstill on 26 May 2043 at 08:52 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.459°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠28.431° at the point of next northern standstill on 8 June 2043 at 09:54 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.
