Waxing
Crescent ♋ Cancer
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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 6 June 2054 at 02:40 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 ♊ Gemini
Moon is passing about ∠21° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1926" and ∠1891".
Strawberry Moon after 13 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2054 after 13 days on 20 June 2054 at 03:42.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 12 June 2054 at 19:17
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 20 June 2054 at 03:42
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 28 June 2054 at 07:30
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 5 July 2054 at 10:34
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 673 / 1626
At 02:40 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 673 of Meeus index or 1626 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.33 days
29 days, 7 hours and 54 minutes is the length of new lunation 673. It is 40 minutes longer than next lunation 674 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 50 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 19 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠316.1°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠316.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠336°. 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 before perigee
9 days after point of apogee on 28 May 2054 at 00:43 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 2 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 8 June 2054 at 21:43 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 372 115 km
Moon is 372 115 km (231 222 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 2 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 365 007 km (226 805 mi).
Moon before ascending node
8 days after its descending node on 29 May 2054 at 02:37 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 4 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 11 June 2054 at 07:33 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
22 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before northern standstill
13 days after previous South standstill on 24 May 2054 at 11:01 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-19.115°. Next day the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠19.164° in the next northern standstill on 7 June 2054 at 14:08 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.