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 ♌ Leo.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 20 August 2028 at 10:44 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 in ♌ Leo
Moon is leaving the last ∠1° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♍ Virgo later.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1967" and ∠1897".
Harvest Moon after 14 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2028 after 14 days on 3 September 2028 at 23:48.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 27 August 2028 at 01:36
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 3 September 2028 at 23:48
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 12 September 2028 at 00:46
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 18 September 2028 at 18:24
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 354 / 1307
At 10:44 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 354 of Meeus index or 1307 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.32 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 40 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2028. It is 53 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 4 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 5 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠347.7°
The true anomaly is ∠347.7°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠2.9°.
Moon before apogee
11 days after point of apogee on 8 August 2028 at 12:54 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 21 August 2028 at 04:10 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 364 359 km
The Moon is 364 359 km (226 402 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 074 km (222 497 mi).
Moon after descending node
2 days after descending node on 18 August 2028 at 02:04 in ♋ Cancer. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 10 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 30 August 2028 at 20:39 in ♑ Capricorn.
Draconic month
16 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
4 days since the previous standstill on 15 August 2028 at 17:21 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠25.876°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠-25.819° at the point of next southern standstill on 28 August 2028 at 06:28 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.
