New Moon
New MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

New Moon in Gemini

New Moon on . Illuminated surface of the Moon is 0%. Lunar cycle is less than 1 day young.

* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 13 June 2056 at 07:04 UTC.

Moonrise and moonset

Moon rises at sunrise and sets at sunset. It's part facing the Earth is completely in shadow.

Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♊ Gemini

Moon is leaving the last ∠4° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.

Strawberry Moon after 13 days

Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2056 after 13 days on 27 June 2056 at 09:47.

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.

Apparent angular diameter

Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1797" and ∠1889".

New lunation 698 / 1651

At 07:04 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 698 of Meeus index or lunation 1651 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.55 days

The length of the lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 16 minutes. It is 1 hour and 48 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).

Lunation length longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 32 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 31 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠222.4°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠222.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠255.1°.

Moon after apogee

4 days since point of apogee on 9 June 2056 at 08:50 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 25 June 2056 at 03:02 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Distance to Moon 398 787 km

The Moon is 398 787 km (247 795 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 11 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 363 147 km (225 649 mi).

Moon before ascending node

12 days after descending node on 1 June 2056 at 02:08 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 15 June 2056 at 14:37 in ♋ Cancer.

Moon before northern standstill

13 days since the last southern standstill on 31 May 2056 at 08:32 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-21.964° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠22.004° at the point of next northern standstill on 14 June 2056 at 20:08 in ♋ Cancer.

Draconic month

25 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy

The Moon is in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com

Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov