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 25 July 2006 at 04:31 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 ♌ Leo
Moon is passing about ∠6° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1797" and ∠1889".
Sturgeon Moon after 14 days
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2006 after 14 days on 9 August 2006 at 10:54.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 2 August 2006 at 08:46
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 9 August 2006 at 10:54
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 16 August 2006 at 01:51
- New Moon in Leo ♌ on 23 August 2006 at 19:10
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 81 / 1034
At 04:31 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 81 of Meeus index or 1034 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.61 days
29 days, 14 hours and 39 minutes is the length of new lunation 81. It is 1 hour and 56 minutes shorter than next lunation 82 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 55 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 8 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠131.2°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠131.2°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠158.8°. 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 before apogee
11 days after point of perigee on 13 July 2006 at 17:35 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 4 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 29 July 2006 at 13:02 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 398 929 km
Moon is 398 929 km (247 883 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 4 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 405 405 km (251 907 mi).
Moon before descending node
9 days after its ascending node on 15 July 2006 at 20:25 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 4 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 29 July 2006 at 16:58 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
9 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
2 days after previous North standstill on 22 July 2006 at 14:34 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠28.515°. Next 11 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-28.594° in the next southern standstill on 6 August 2006 at 04:11 in ♐ Sagittarius.
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.