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 30 August 2038 at 10:13 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 ∠8° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1925" and ∠1901".
Harvest Moon after 14 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2038 after 14 days on 13 September 2038 at 12:24.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 6 September 2038 at 01:51
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 13 September 2038 at 12:24
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 21 September 2038 at 16:27
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 28 September 2038 at 18:57
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 478 / 1431
At 10:13 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 478 of Meeus index or 1431 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.36 days
29 days, 8 hours and 45 minutes is the length of new lunation 478. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2038. It is 10 minutes shorter than next lunation 479 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 3 hours and 59 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 10 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠319.9°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠319.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠339.4°. 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 before perigee
9 days after point of apogee on 21 August 2038 at 01:57 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 2 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 1 September 2038 at 22:39 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 372 312 km
Moon is 372 312 km (231 344 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 2 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 364 106 km (226 245 mi).
Moon after ascending node
4 days after its ascending node on 26 August 2038 at 03:40 in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 8 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 7 September 2038 at 20:51 in ♑ Capricorn.
Draconic month
4 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
4 days after previous North standstill on 26 August 2038 at 08:58 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠23.151°. Next 8 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-23.232° in the next southern standstill on 8 September 2038 at 03:20 in ♑ Capricorn.
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.