New
Moon ♍ Virgo
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 1 day young Moon is in ♌ Leo.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 23 August 2006 at 19:10 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 leaving the last ∠3° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♍ Virgo later.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1778" and ∠1898".
Harvest Moon after 15 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2006 after 15 days on 7 September 2006 at 18:42.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 31 August 2006 at 22:56
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 7 September 2006 at 18:42
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 14 September 2006 at 11:15
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 22 September 2006 at 11:45
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 82 / 1035
At 19:10 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 82 of Meeus index or 1035 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.69 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 35 minutes. It is 54 minutes shorter 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 51 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 12 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠158.8°
The true anomaly is ∠158.8°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠182.3°.
Moon before perigee
12 days after point of perigee on 10 August 2006 at 18:27 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 26 August 2006 at 01:23 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 403 090 km
The Moon is 403 090 km (250 469 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 271 km (252 445 mi).
Moon before descending node
11 days after ascending node on 12 August 2006 at 01:31 in ♓ Pisces. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 2 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 25 August 2006 at 21:34 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
11 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
4 days since the previous standstill on 18 August 2006 at 19:43 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.645°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.705° at the point of next southern standstill on 2 September 2006 at 13:11 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy
The Moon is in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.
