Waxing
Crescent ♌ Leo
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 ♋ Cancer.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 18 July 2069 at 11:13 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 in ♋ Cancer
Moon is leaving the last ∠3° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♌ Leo later.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1881" and ∠1888".
Sturgeon Moon after 15 days
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2069 after 15 days on 2 August 2069 at 23:44.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 26 July 2069 at 05:30
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 2 August 2069 at 23:44
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 9 August 2069 at 19:41
- New Moon in Leo ♌ on 16 August 2069 at 22:03
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 860 / 1813
At 11:13 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 860 of Meeus index or 1813 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.45 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 50 minutes. It is 2 hours and 42 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 54 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 15 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠66.4°
The true anomaly is ∠66.4°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠99.7°.
Moon after perigee
4 days after point of perigee on 13 July 2069 at 15:08 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 26 July 2069 at 04:43 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 380 999 km
The Moon is 380 999 km (236 742 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 7 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 051 km (251 066 mi).
Moon after descending node
5 days after descending node on 13 July 2069 at 03:06 in ♉ Taurus. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 8 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 26 July 2069 at 17:40 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
18 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
2 days since the previous standstill on 15 July 2069 at 22:08 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.867°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.783° at the point of next southern standstill on 30 July 2069 at 03:42 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.
