Waxing
Crescent ♍ Virgo
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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 ♍ Virgo.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 19 August 2001 at 02:55 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 is entering ♍ Virgo
Moon is passing first ∠2° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1896".
Harvest Moon after 14 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2001 after 14 days on 2 September 2001 at 21:43.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 25 August 2001 at 19:55
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 2 September 2001 at 21:43
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 10 September 2001 at 19:00
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 17 September 2001 at 10:27
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 20 / 973
At 02:55 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 20 of Meeus index or 973 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.31 days
29 days, 7 hours and 32 minutes is the length of new lunation 20. It is 1 hour and 24 minutes shorter than next lunation 21 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 5 hours and 12 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 57 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠358.1°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠358.1°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠13.2°. 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°).
Moon in perigee
Moon is reaching point of perigee on this date at 05:43, this is 13 days after last apogee on 5 August 2001 at 21:05 in ♒ Aquarius. Lunar orbit is starting to get wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth for 13 days ahead, until it will get to the point of next apogee on 1 September 2001 at 23:26 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 357 159 km
This perigee Moon is 357 159 km (221 928 mi) away from Earth. It is 5 349 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 13 197 km farther than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon after ascending node
3 days after its ascending node on 15 August 2001 at 17:05 in ♊ Gemini, 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 28 August 2001 at 09:09 in ♑ Capricorn.
Draconic month
3 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
3 days after previous North standstill on 16 August 2001 at 03:52 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠23.488°. Next 9 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-23.546° in the next southern standstill on 28 August 2001 at 23:14 in ♑ Capricorn.
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.