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 16 May 2064 at 09:55 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 leaving the last ∠3° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♊ Gemini later.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1810" and ∠1897".
Flower Moon after 13 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2064 after 13 days on 30 May 2064 at 10:36.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 23 May 2064 at 18:15
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 30 May 2064 at 10:36
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 6 June 2064 at 23:23
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 14 June 2064 at 22:20
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 796 / 1749
At 09:55 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 796 of Meeus index or 1749 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.52 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 26 minutes. It is 2 hours and 1 minute longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 18 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 51 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠235.2°
The true anomaly is ∠235.2°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠269.7°.
Moon after apogee
4 days after point of apogee on 11 May 2064 at 16:10 in ♓ Pisces. 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 27 May 2064 at 12:05 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 395 964 km
The Moon is 395 964 km (246 041 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 11 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 365 280 km (226 974 mi).
Moon before descending node
8 days after ascending node on 8 May 2064 at 10:23 in ♒ Aquarius. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 6 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 22 May 2064 at 17:02 in ♌ Leo.
Draconic month
8 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
12 days since the previous standstill on 4 May 2064 at 00:57 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.444°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.360° at the point of next northern standstill on 18 May 2064 at 13:54 in ♊ Gemini.
Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy
The Moon is in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.
