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 ♋ Cancer.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 23 June 2047 at 10:36 UTC.
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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 ∠3° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1815" and ∠1888".
Buck Moon after 13 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2047 after 13 days on 7 July 2047 at 10:33.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 30 June 2047 at 17:37
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 7 July 2047 at 10:33
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 15 July 2047 at 00:09
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 22 July 2047 at 22:49
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 587 / 1540
At 10:36 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 587 of Meeus index or 1540 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.51 days
29 days, 12 hours and 13 minutes is the length of new lunation 587. It is 1 hour and 46 minutes longer than next lunation 588 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 31 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 38 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠240°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠240°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠274.9°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon after apogee
5 days after point of apogee on 18 June 2047 at 10:22 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 10 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 4 July 2047 at 04:56 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 394 979 km
Moon is 394 979 km (245 429 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 10 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 365 988 km (227 414 mi).
Moon before descending node
13 days after its ascending node on 10 June 2047 at 02:05 in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next day, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 24 June 2047 at 13:16 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
13 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
1 day after previous North standstill on 22 June 2047 at 10:35 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠25.328°. Next 12 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-25.343° in the next southern standstill on 5 July 2047 at 15:10 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy
The Moon is in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun on this date and this alignment forms Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.