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 24 August 2052 at 11:07 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 ∠3° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1876" and ∠1898".
Harvest Moon after 15 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2052 after 15 days on 9 September 2052 at 00:15.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 1 September 2052 at 07:10
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 9 September 2052 at 00:15
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 15 September 2052 at 19:48
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 22 September 2052 at 23:32
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 651 / 1604
At 11:07 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 651 of Meeus index or 1604 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.52 days
29 days, 12 hours and 26 minutes is the length of new lunation 651. It is 3 hours and 5 minutes shorter than next lunation 652 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 18 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 51 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠69.9°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠69.9°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠104.4°. 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 after perigee
5 days after point of perigee on 19 August 2052 at 04:12 in ♊ Gemini. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 7 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 1 September 2052 at 00:01 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 382 169 km
Moon is 382 169 km (237 469 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 7 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 226 km (251 174 mi).
Moon before ascending node
10 days after its descending node on 14 August 2052 at 01:39 in ♈ Aries, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 2 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 27 August 2052 at 00:15 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
24 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
4 days after previous North standstill on 19 August 2052 at 22:30 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠18.268°. Next 9 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-18.203° in the next southern standstill on 2 September 2052 at 21:23 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.