Waxing
Crescent ♍ Virgo
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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 1 day young Moon is in ♌ Leo.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 21 August 2036 at 17:35 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 ∠4° 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 ∠1971" and ∠1897".
Harvest Moon after 15 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2036 after 15 days on 5 September 2036 at 18:45.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 28 August 2036 at 14:43
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 5 September 2036 at 18:45
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 13 September 2036 at 10:29
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 20 September 2036 at 01:51
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 453 / 1406
At 17:35 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 453 of Meeus index or 1406 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.34 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 16 minutes. It is 1 hour and 42 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 4 hours and 28 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 41 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠9.3°
The true anomaly is ∠9.3°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠25.8°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 04:27. It is 14 days after previous apogee on 6 August 2036 at 19:59 in ♒ Aquarius. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 12 days, until point of next apogee on 3 September 2036 at 00:30 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 357 819 km
This perigee Moon is 357 819 km (222 338 mi) away from Earth. It is 4 689 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 12 537 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon after ascending node
1 day after ascending node on 20 August 2036 at 22:29 in ♌ Leo. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 13 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 3 September 2036 at 12:59 in ♒ Aquarius.
Draconic month
1 day since the beginning of current draconic month in ♌ Leo, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
3 days since the previous standstill on 18 August 2036 at 10:50 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.867°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.884° at the point of next southern standstill on 31 August 2036 at 09:33 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.
