Waxing
Crescent ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
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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 23 August 2025 at 06:06 UTC.
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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 is entering ♍ Virgo
Moon is passing first ∠4° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1840" and ∠1898".
Harvest Moon after 15 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2025 after 15 days on 7 September 2025 at 18:09.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 31 August 2025 at 06:25
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 7 September 2025 at 18:09
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 14 September 2025 at 10:33
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 21 September 2025 at 19:54
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 317 / 1270
At 06:06 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 317 of Meeus index or 1270 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.58 days
29 days, 13 hours and 48 minutes is the length of new lunation 317. It is 2 hours and 43 minutes shorter than next lunation 318 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 4 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 59 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠93°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠93°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠127.7°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon before apogee
8 days after point of perigee on 14 August 2025 at 18:01 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 6 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 29 August 2025 at 15:34 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 389 514 km
Moon is 389 514 km (242 033 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 6 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 552 km (251 377 mi).
Moon before descending node
11 days after its ascending node on 11 August 2025 at 14:53 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next day, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 24 August 2025 at 15:41 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
11 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
4 days after previous North standstill on 18 August 2025 at 15:59 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠28.585°. Next 9 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-28.623° in the next southern standstill on 1 September 2025 at 22:04 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy
The Moon is in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun on this date and this alignment forms Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.