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 21 August 2066 at 00:50 UTC.
Moon phases for next 7 days
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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 ∠1818" and ∠1897".
Harvest Moon after 13 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2066 after 13 days on 4 September 2066 at 01:37.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 28 August 2066 at 08:25
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 4 September 2066 at 01:37
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 11 September 2066 at 14:16
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 19 September 2066 at 13:47
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 824 / 1777
At 00:50 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 824 of Meeus index or 1777 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.54 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 58 minutes. It is 1 hour and 3 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 13 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 49 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠236.4°
The true anomaly is ∠236.4°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠272.1°.
Moon after apogee
5 days after point of apogee on 16 August 2066 at 05:19 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 1 September 2066 at 01:49 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 394 259 km
The Moon is 394 259 km (244 981 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 365 541 km (227 137 mi).
Moon after descending node
4 days after descending node on 16 August 2066 at 21:14 in ♋ Cancer. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 9 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 30 August 2066 at 14:05 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
18 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
6 days since the previous standstill on 15 August 2066 at 06:35 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠24.625°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠-24.516° at the point of next southern standstill on 29 August 2066 at 07:59 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy
The Moon is in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.
