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 ♉ Taurus.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 2 May 2049 at 00:11 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 in ♉ Taurus
Moon is passing about ∠18° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1823" and ∠1903".
Flower Moon after 14 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2049 after 14 days on 17 May 2049 at 11:13.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 10 May 2049 at 01:57
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 17 May 2049 at 11:13
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 24 May 2049 at 02:54
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 31 May 2049 at 14:00
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 610 / 1563
At 00:11 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 610 of Meeus index or 1563 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.58 days
29 days, 13 hours and 49 minutes is the length of new lunation 610. It is 1 hour and 1 minute shorter than next lunation 611 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 5 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 58 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠102.4°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠102.4°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠136.3°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon before apogee
10 days after point of perigee on 22 April 2049 at 11:15 in ♑ Capricorn. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 5 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 7 May 2049 at 22:34 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 393 119 km
Moon is 393 119 km (244 273 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 5 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 657 km (251 442 mi).
Moon before descending node
11 days after its ascending node on 20 April 2049 at 23:57 in ♐ Sagittarius, 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 4 May 2049 at 04:33 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
11 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon before northern standstill
10 days after previous South standstill on 21 April 2049 at 13:59 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-22.138°. Next 2 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠22.094° in the next northern standstill on 4 May 2049 at 21:27 in ♊ Gemini.
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.