Waxing
Crescent ♎ Libra
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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 less than 1 day young Moon is in ♎ Libra.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 1 October 2054 at 09:49 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 ♎ Libra
Moon is passing about ∠10° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1950" and ∠1917".
Hunter Moon after 15 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2054 after 15 days on 16 October 2054 at 17:44.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 8 October 2054 at 13:19
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 16 October 2054 at 17:44
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 24 October 2054 at 02:39
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 30 October 2054 at 20:01
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 677 / 1630
At 09:49 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 677 of Meeus index or 1630 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.43 days
29 days, 10 hours and 12 minutes is the length of new lunation 677. It is 2 hours and 20 minutes shorter than next lunation 678 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 32 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours and 37 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠23.7°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠23.7°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠44°. 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
1 day after point of perigee on 29 September 2054 at 23:51 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 10 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 12 October 2054 at 01:43 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 367 561 km
Moon is 367 561 km (228 392 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 10 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 405 118 km (251 729 mi).
Moon after ascending node
2 days after its ascending node on 28 September 2054 at 16:44 in ♌ Leo, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 10 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 12 October 2054 at 01:43 in ♒ Aquarius.
Draconic month
2 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♌ Leo, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
6 days after previous North standstill on 25 September 2054 at 05:02 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠19.216°. Next 6 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-19.290° in the next southern standstill on 7 October 2054 at 22:45 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.