Waxing
Crescent ♍ 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 less than 1 day young Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 29 August 2011 at 03:04 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 ♍ Virgo
Moon is passing about ∠11° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1953" and ∠1900".
Harvest Moon after 13 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2011 after 13 days on 12 September 2011 at 09:27.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 4 September 2011 at 17:39
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 12 September 2011 at 09:27
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 20 September 2011 at 13:39
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 27 September 2011 at 11:09
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 144 / 1097
At 03:04 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 144 of Meeus index or 1097 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.34 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 5 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2011. It is 42 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 39 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 30 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠333.4°
The true anomaly is ∠333.4°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠350.1°.
Moon before apogee
10 days after point of apogee on 18 August 2011 at 16:23 in ♈ Aries. 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 30 August 2011 at 17:35 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 367 003 km
The Moon is 367 003 km (228 045 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 360 858 km (224 227 mi).
Moon after descending node
5 days after descending node on 23 August 2011 at 17:23 in ♊ Gemini. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 6 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 5 September 2011 at 07:36 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
20 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
5 days since the previous standstill on 23 August 2011 at 12:17 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠23.149°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-23.047° at the point of next southern standstill on 5 September 2011 at 05:01 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.
