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 9 May 2100 at 08:54 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 ∠20° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1776" and ∠1900".
Flower Moon after 14 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2100 after 14 days on 23 May 2100 at 17:25.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 17 May 2100 at 02:42
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 23 May 2100 at 17:25
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 30 May 2100 at 19:35
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 7 June 2100 at 23:31
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 1241 / 2194
At 08:54 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 1241 of Meeus index or 2194 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.61 days
29 days, 14 hours and 38 minutes is the length of new lunation 1241. It is 2 hours and 3 minutes longer than next lunation 1242 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 54 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 9 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠200.1°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠200.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠227.5°. 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 after apogee
2 days after point of apogee on 7 May 2100 at 05:13 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 12 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 22 May 2100 at 11:04 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 403 591 km
Moon is 403 591 km (250 780 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 12 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 359 498 km (223 382 mi).
Moon after ascending node
5 days after its ascending node on 4 May 2100 at 01:19 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 8 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 18 May 2100 at 10:11 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
5 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon before northern standstill
11 days after previous South standstill on 28 April 2100 at 00:08 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-28.374°. Next 3 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠28.277° in the next northern standstill on 12 May 2100 at 13:36 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.