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 less than 1 day young Moon is in ♌ Leo.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 15 August 2061 at 09:39 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 passing about ∠24° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1899" and ∠1895".
Sturgeon Moon after 15 days
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2061 after 15 days on 30 August 2061 at 22:18.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 23 August 2061 at 01:18
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 30 August 2061 at 22:18
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 6 September 2061 at 21:12
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 13 September 2061 at 20:37
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 762 / 1715
At 09:39 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 762 of Meeus index or 1715 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.46 days
29 days, 10 hours and 58 minutes is the length of new lunation 762. It is 3 hours and 6 minutes shorter than next lunation 763 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 46 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 23 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠53.7°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠53.7°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠84.5°. 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
3 days after point of perigee on 11 August 2061 at 19:47 in ♊ Gemini. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 8 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 23 August 2061 at 20:28 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 377 429 km
Moon is 377 429 km (234 524 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 8 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 229 km (251 176 mi).
Moon before descending node
9 days after its ascending node on 6 August 2061 at 04:44 in ♈ Aries, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 3 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 19 August 2061 at 00:57 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
9 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
3 days after previous North standstill on 11 August 2061 at 20:45 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠28.426°. Next 10 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-28.503° in the next southern standstill on 25 August 2061 at 17:13 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.