Waxing
Crescent ♍ Virgo
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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 31 August 2046 at 18:25 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 ∠1962" and ∠1901".
Harvest Moon after 14 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2046 after 14 days on 15 September 2046 at 06:39.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 7 September 2046 at 09:07
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 15 September 2046 at 06:39
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 23 September 2046 at 08:16
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 30 September 2046 at 02:25
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 577 / 1530
At 18:25 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 577 of Meeus index or 1530 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.33 days
29 days, 8 hours and 1 minute is the length of new lunation 577. It is 52 minutes shorter than next lunation 578 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 44 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 25 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠345.8°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠345.8°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠1.2°. 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 perigee
11 days after point of apogee on 20 August 2046 at 01:53 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next day, until it get to the point of next perigee on 1 September 2046 at 14:28 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 365 362 km
Moon is 365 362 km (227 025 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next day until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 358 321 km (222 650 mi).
Moon after descending node
2 days after its descending node on 29 August 2046 at 10:45 in ♌ Leo, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 10 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 11 September 2046 at 05:06 in ♒ Aquarius.
Draconic month
16 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
5 days after previous North standstill on 26 August 2046 at 07:50 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠26.666°. Next 7 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-26.607° in the next southern standstill on 7 September 2046 at 20:58 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.