Waxing
Crescent ♎ Libra
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 1 day young Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 4 September 2032 at 20:57 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 ♍ Virgo
Moon is passing about ∠20° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1772" and ∠1904".
Harvest Moon after 13 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2032 after 13 days on 19 September 2032 at 09:30.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 12 September 2032 at 18:49
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 19 September 2032 at 09:30
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 26 September 2032 at 09:12
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 4 October 2032 at 13:26
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 404 / 1357
At 20:56 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 404 of Meeus index or 1357 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.69 days
29 days, 16 hours and 30 minutes is the length of new lunation 404. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2032. It is 11 minutes longer than next lunation 405 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 3 hours and 46 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours and 17 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠189.3°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠189.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠215.1°. 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°).
Moon after apogee
1 day after point of apogee on 3 September 2032 at 19:58 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 13 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 18 September 2032 at 14:05 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 404 457 km
Moon is 404 457 km (251 318 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 13 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 358 032 km (222 471 mi).
Moon before ascending node
11 days after its descending node on 25 August 2032 at 09:01 in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 3 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 8 September 2032 at 21:41 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
23 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
7 days after previous North standstill on 29 August 2032 at 03:57 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠19.299°. Next 7 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-19.181° in the next southern standstill on 12 September 2032 at 21:50 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.