New Moon
New MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

New Moon in Virgo

New Moon on . Illuminated surface of the Moon is 0%. Lunar cycle is less than 1 day young.

* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 25 August 2090 at 08:58 UTC.

Moonrise and moonset

Moon rises at sunrise and sets at sunset. It's part facing the Earth is completely in shadow.

Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♍ Virgo

Moon is passing about ∠5° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.

Harvest Moon after 14 days

Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2090 after 14 days on 8 September 2090 at 22:44.

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.

Apparent angular diameter

Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1969" and ∠1899".

New lunation 1121 / 2074

At 08:59 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 1121 of Meeus index or lunation 2074 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.34 days

The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 4 minutes. It is 1 hour and 2 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit 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 4 hours and 40 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 29 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠348.5°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠348.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠3.8°.

Moon before perigee

12 days since point of apogee on 13 August 2090 at 08:23 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 26 August 2090 at 01:13 in ♍ Virgo.

Distance to Moon 364 121 km

The Moon is 364 121 km (226 254 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 032 km (222 471 mi).

Moon before ascending node

12 days after descending node on 13 August 2090 at 01:17 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 26 August 2090 at 13:58 in ♍ Virgo.

Moon after northern standstill

4 days since the last northern standstill on 21 August 2090 at 05:49 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.266° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.232° at the point of next southern standstill on 2 September 2090 at 19:58 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

26 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy

The Moon is in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.

Lunar calendar

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