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 3 September 2081 at 09:01 UTC.
Moon phases for next 7 days
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Sunday Sun
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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 ♍ Virgo
Moon is passing about ∠13° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1903".
Harvest Moon after 14 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2081 after 14 days on 18 September 2081 at 03:45.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 10 September 2081 at 02:21
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 18 September 2081 at 03:45
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 26 September 2081 at 01:30
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 2 October 2081 at 17:23
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 1010 / 1963
At 09:01 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 1010 of Meeus index or 1963 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.35 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 22 minutes. It is 1 hour and 19 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 4 hours and 22 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 47 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠357.1°
The true anomaly is ∠357.1°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠12.5°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 13:09. It is 13 days after previous apogee on 21 August 2081 at 05:57 in ♓ Pisces. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 13 days, until point of next apogee on 17 September 2081 at 08:20 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 357 254 km
This perigee Moon is 357 254 km (221 987 mi) away from Earth. It is 5 254 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 13 102 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♍ Virgo at 14:55 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 13 days later on 17 September 2081 at 06:18 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
13 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
5 days since the previous standstill on 29 August 2081 at 07:15 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.537°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.547° at the point of next southern standstill on 10 September 2081 at 20:08 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.
