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New Moon on 26
May 2006 Friday

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Moon phase on 26 May 2006 Friday is New Moon, 1

day young Moon is in Taurus.

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Moon phase for 26 May

2006 Friday 12:00 UTC

2006 | May 2006

New Moon phase

Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific
Visualization Studio.

New Moon
New Moon is the lunar phase on 26 May 2006,
Friday. Surface of the Moon disc is not illuminated.
The 1 day young Moon is in Taurus.

* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase

is on 27 May 2006 at 05:26 UTC.

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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 in Taurus
Moon is leaving the last ∠4° 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 ∠1902" and ∠1894".

Strawberry Moon after 16 days

Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2006
after 16 days on 11 June 2006 at 18:03.

Upcoming main Moon phases

New Moon in Gemini after 1 day on

27 May 2006 at 05:26

First Quarter in Virgo after 8 days on

3 June 2006 at 23:06

Full Moon in Sagittarius after 16 days on

11 June 2006 at 18:03

Last Quarter in Pisces after 23 days on

18 June 2006 at 14:08

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 78 / 1031

At 19:44 on this date the Moon completes the old and
enters a new synodic month with lunation 78 of
Meeus index or 1031 from Brown series.

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Synodic month length 29.4 days

29 days, 9 hours and 42 minutes is the length of new
lunation 78. It is 58 minutes shorter than next lunation
79 length.

Lunation length shorter than

mean
Length of current synodic month is 3 hours and
2 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic
month, but it is still 3 hours and 7 minutes longer,
compared to 21st century shortest.

Lunar orbit position on 26

May 2006 Friday 12:00 UTC

True anomaly ∠ 38.4°

This New Moon true anomaly is ∠38.4°. At beginning
of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠64.2°.
The length of upcoming synodic months will keep
increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the
value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).

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Moon after perigee

3 days after point of perigee on 22 May 2006 at 15:29
in Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while
the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep
this direction over the next 8 days, until the Moon
reaches the point of next apogee on 4 June 2006 at
01:41 in Virgo.

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Distance to Moon 376 845 km

Moon is 376 845 km (234 161 mi) away from Earth.
Moon is getting further over the next 8 days until
apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will be
404 080 km (251 084 mi).

Moon after ascending node

3 days after ascending node on 22 May 2006 at
18:00 in Pisces. The Moon is located north of the
ecliptic over the following 10 days, until the lunar orbit
crosses from North to South in descending node on
5 June 2006 at 12:10 in Libra.

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Draconic month
3 days after beginning of current draconic month in
Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the beginning
to the first part of the cycle.

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Moon before northern standstill

10 days after previous South standstill on
16 May 2006 at 03:52 in Capricorn, when Moon
has reached southern declination of ∠-28.539°. Next
2 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North
declination of ∠28.490° in the next northern standstill
on 29 May 2006 at 01:13 in Cancer.

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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.

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fl 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

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