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 1 day young Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
* 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 ♍ Virgo
Moon is passing about ∠9° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1771" and ∠1898".
Harvest Moon after 14 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2006 after 14 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
29 days, 16 hours and 35 minutes is the length of new lunation 82. It is 54 minutes shorter than next lunation 83 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 3 hours and 51 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours and 12 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠158.8°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠158.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠182.3°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon before apogee
13 days after point of perigee on 10 August 2006 at 18:27 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next day, until it get to the point of next apogee on 26 August 2006 at 01:23 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 404 734 km
Moon is 404 734 km (251 490 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next day until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 271 km (252 445 mi).
Moon before descending node
12 days after its ascending node on 12 August 2006 at 01:31 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next day, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 25 August 2006 at 21:34 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
12 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
5 days after previous North standstill on 18 August 2006 at 19:43 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠28.645°. Next 9 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-28.705° in the next southern standstill on 2 September 2006 at 13:11 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.