Waxing
Crescent ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
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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 ♌ Leo.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 22 August 2055 at 18:14 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 ∠1948" and ∠1897".
Harvest Moon after 14 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2055 after 14 days on 6 September 2055 at 01:56.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 29 August 2055 at 08:35
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 6 September 2055 at 01:56
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 14 September 2055 at 05:14
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 21 September 2055 at 02:19
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 688 / 1641
At 18:15 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 688 of Meeus index or 1641 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.34 days
29 days, 8 hours and 5 minutes is the length of new lunation 688. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2055. It is 25 minutes shorter than next lunation 689 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 39 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 30 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠336.4°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠336.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠352.8°. 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
10 days after point of apogee on 12 August 2055 at 01:01 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 24 August 2055 at 04:11 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 367 964 km
Moon is 367 964 km (228 642 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next day until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 360 218 km (223 829 mi).
Moon after ascending node
1 day after its ascending node on 21 August 2055 at 10:18 in ♌ Leo, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 11 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 3 September 2055 at 07:35 in ♒ Aquarius.
Draconic month
1 day 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
3 days after previous North standstill on 19 August 2055 at 08:07 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠20.416°. Next 9 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-20.442° in the next southern standstill on 31 August 2055 at 23:31 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.