Waxing
Crescent ♎ Libra
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 13 September 2015 at 06:41 UTC.
Moon phases for next 7 days
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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 ∠23° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1907".
Harvest Moon after 14 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2015 after 14 days on 28 September 2015 at 02:50.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 21 September 2015 at 08:59
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 28 September 2015 at 02:50
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 4 October 2015 at 21:06
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 13 October 2015 at 00:06
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 194 / 1147
At 06:41 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 194 of Meeus index or 1147 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.73 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 24 minutes. It is 17 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 4 hours and 40 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 23 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠169.3°
The true anomaly is ∠169.3°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠192.9°.
Moon before perigee
13 days after point of perigee on 30 August 2015 at 15:24 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 14 September 2015 at 11:28 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 405 213 km
The Moon is 405 213 km (251 788 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 466 km (252 566 mi).
Moon before ascending node
13 days after descending node on 31 August 2015 at 10:16 in ♈ Aries. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 14 September 2015 at 04:38 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
26 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
6 days since the previous standstill on 6 September 2015 at 17:06 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.163°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.134° at the point of next southern standstill on 21 September 2015 at 12:02 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.
