Waxing
Crescent ♌ Leo
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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 ♌ Leo.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 30 July 2076 at 22:05 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 ∠15° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1891".
Sturgeon Moon after 14 days
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2076 after 14 days on 14 August 2076 at 17:11.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 7 August 2076 at 23:21
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 14 August 2076 at 17:11
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 21 August 2076 at 11:00
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 29 August 2076 at 13:43
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 947 / 1900
At 22:05 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 947 of Meeus index or 1900 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.65 days
29 days, 15 hours and 38 minutes is the length of new lunation 947. It is 6 minutes shorter than next lunation 948 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 54 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 9 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠170.2°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠170.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠193.2°. 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 apogee
14 days after point of perigee on 17 July 2076 at 05:58 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next day, until it get to the point of next apogee on 1 August 2076 at 00:12 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 405 454 km
Moon is 405 454 km (251 937 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next day until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 563 km (252 627 mi).
Moon after ascending node
4 days after its ascending node on 27 July 2076 at 08:20 in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 10 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 10 August 2076 at 19:54 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
4 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
2 days after previous North standstill on 28 July 2076 at 15:14 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠24.331°. Next 11 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-24.400° in the next southern standstill on 11 August 2076 at 22:59 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.