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 3 September 2024 at 01:55 UTC.
Moon phases for next 7 days
Wednesday Wed
Thursday Thu
Friday Fri
Saturday Sat
Sunday Sun
Monday Mon
Tuesday Tue
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 ∠16° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1774" and ∠1903".
Harvest Moon after 14 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2024 after 14 days on 18 September 2024 at 02:34.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 11 September 2024 at 06:06
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 18 September 2024 at 02:34
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 24 September 2024 at 18:50
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 2 October 2024 at 18:49
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 305 / 1258
At 01:56 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 305 of Meeus index or 1258 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.7 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 54 minutes. It is 1 hour and 4 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 10 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 53 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠155.7°
The true anomaly is ∠155.7°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠179.7°.
Moon before perigee
13 days after point of perigee on 21 August 2024 at 05:05 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 2 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 5 September 2024 at 14:55 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 403 954 km
The Moon is 403 954 km (251 005 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 215 km (252 410 mi).
Moon before descending node
12 days after ascending node on 22 August 2024 at 10:27 in ♈ Aries. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 5 September 2024 at 05:43 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
12 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
6 days since the previous standstill on 28 August 2024 at 11:09 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.606°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.671° at the point of next southern standstill on 12 September 2024 at 04:51 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.
