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 7 September 2021 at 00:52 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 ∠21° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1898" and ∠1904".
Harvest Moon after 13 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2021 after 13 days on 20 September 2021 at 23:55.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 13 September 2021 at 20:39
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 20 September 2021 at 23:55
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 29 September 2021 at 01:57
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 6 October 2021 at 11:05
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 268 / 1221
At 00:52 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 268 of Meeus index or 1221 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.43 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 14 minutes. It is 5 minutes longer 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 2 hours and 30 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 39 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠297.8°
The true anomaly is ∠297.8°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠323.3°.
Moon before apogee
8 days after point of apogee on 30 August 2021 at 02:22 in ♊ Gemini. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 11 September 2021 at 10:05 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 377 659 km
The Moon is 377 659 km (234 666 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 368 464 km (228 953 mi).
Moon before descending node
8 days after ascending node on 30 August 2021 at 05:13 in ♊ Gemini. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 5 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 12 September 2021 at 16:35 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
8 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
5 days since the previous standstill on 2 September 2021 at 00:23 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠25.868°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠-25.980° at the point of next southern standstill on 15 September 2021 at 03:48 in ♑ Capricorn.
Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy
The Moon is in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.
