Waxing
Crescent ♎ Libra
Moon phase on 13 September 2015 Sunday is New Moon, less than 1 day young Moon is in Virgo.
Share this page: twitter facebook linkedinNew 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.
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Moon rises at sunrise and sets at sunset. It's part facing the Earth is completely in shadow.
Moon is passing about ∠23° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1907".
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2015 after 14 days on 28 September 2015 at 02:50.
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.
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.
29 days, 17 hours and 24 minutes is the length of new lunation 194. It is 17 minutes shorter than next lunation 195 length.
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 40 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 23 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
This lunation true anomaly is ∠169.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠192.9°. 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°).
13 days after point of perigee on 30 August 2015 at 15:24 in ♓ Pisces. 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 14 September 2015 at 11:28 in ♎ Libra.
Moon is 405 213 km (251 788 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next day until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 466 km (252 566 mi).
13 days after its descending node on 31 August 2015 at 10:16 in ♈ Aries, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next day, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 14 September 2015 at 04:38 in ♎ Libra.
26 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
6 days after previous North standstill on 6 September 2015 at 17:06 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠18.163°. Next 8 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-18.134° in the next southern standstill on 21 September 2015 at 12:02 in ♐ Sagittarius.
The Moon is in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun on this date and this alignment forms Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.