Waxing
Crescent ♎ Libra
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 1 day young Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 19 September 2066 at 13:47 UTC.
Moon phases for next 7 days
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Sunday Sun
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 ♍ Virgo
Moon is leaving the last ∠4° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♎ Libra later.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1849" and ∠1911".
Hunter Moon after 14 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2066 after 14 days on 3 October 2066 at 12:25.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 26 September 2066 at 14:19
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 3 October 2066 at 12:25
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 11 October 2066 at 09:43
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 19 October 2066 at 01:42
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 825 / 1778
At 13:47 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 825 of Meeus index or 1778 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.5 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 55 minutes. It is 32 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 49 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 20 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠272.1°
The true anomaly is ∠272.1°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠304.7°.
Moon after apogee
6 days after point of apogee on 12 September 2066 at 22:49 in ♊ Gemini. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 27 September 2066 at 12:48 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 387 591 km
The Moon is 387 591 km (240 838 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 827 km (229 800 mi).
Moon after descending node
6 days after descending node on 13 September 2066 at 00:19 in ♋ Cancer. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 7 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 26 September 2066 at 15:21 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
19 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
7 days since the previous standstill on 11 September 2066 at 14:21 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠24.408°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-24.274° at the point of next southern standstill on 25 September 2066 at 13:22 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.
