Waxing
Crescent ♌ Leo
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 ♌ Leo.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 29 July 2003 at 06:53 UTC.
Moon phases for next 7 days
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Sunday Sun
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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 ♌ Leo
Moon is passing about ∠9° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1852" and ∠1890".
Sturgeon Moon after 13 days
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2003 after 13 days on 12 August 2003 at 04:48.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 5 August 2003 at 07:28
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 12 August 2003 at 04:48
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 20 August 2003 at 00:48
- New Moon in Leo ♌ on 27 August 2003 at 17:26
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 44 / 997
At 06:53 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 44 of Meeus index or 997 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.44 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 34 minutes. It is 51 minutes 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 2 hours and 10 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 59 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠268.5°
The true anomaly is ∠268.5°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠301°.
Moon after apogee
6 days after point of apogee on 22 July 2003 at 19:37 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 6 August 2003 at 14:06 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 386 960 km
The Moon is 386 960 km (240 446 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 437 km (229 558 mi).
Moon after ascending node
5 days after ascending node on 23 July 2003 at 18:44 in ♉ Taurus. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 7 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 6 August 2003 at 06:49 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
5 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
2 days since the previous standstill on 27 July 2003 at 03:55 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.493°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠-26.553° at the point of next southern standstill on 9 August 2003 at 06:19 in ♑ Capricorn.
Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy
The Moon is in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.
