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 1 day young Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 11 May 2059 at 19:15 UTC.
Moon phases for next 7 days
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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 ♊ Gemini
Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1885" and ∠1899".
Flower Moon after 14 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2059 after 14 days on 27 May 2059 at 08:04.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 19 May 2059 at 10:22
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 27 May 2059 at 08:04
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 3 June 2059 at 06:20
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 10 June 2059 at 05:57
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 734 / 1687
At 19:15 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 734 of Meeus index or 1687 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.45 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 42 minutes. It is 1 hour and 20 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 2 hours and 2 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 7 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠53.2°
The true anomaly is ∠53.2°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠84.4°.
Moon after perigee
4 days after point of perigee on 8 May 2059 at 06:41 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 20 May 2059 at 06:41 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 380 164 km
The Moon is 380 164 km (236 223 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 7 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 327 km (251 237 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♉ Taurus at 04:37 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 14 days later on 26 May 2059 at 14:46 in ♏ Scorpio.
New draconic month
At 04:37 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon before northern standstill
10 days since the previous standstill on 2 May 2059 at 11:32 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.654°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠26.665° at the point of next northern standstill on 15 May 2059 at 08:44 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.
