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 28 August 2087 at 05:08 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 ♍ Virgo
Moon is passing about ∠9° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1837" and ∠1900".
Harvest Moon after 15 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2087 after 15 days on 12 September 2087 at 16:43.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 5 September 2087 at 05:49
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 12 September 2087 at 16:43
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 19 September 2087 at 09:23
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 26 September 2087 at 18:47
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 1084 / 2037
At 05:08 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 1084 of Meeus index or 2037 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.57 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 39 minutes. It is 3 hours and 4 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 55 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 8 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠95.4°
The true anomaly is ∠95.4°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠129.7°.
Moon before perigee
9 days after point of perigee on 19 August 2087 at 10:24 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 5 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 3 September 2087 at 11:42 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 390 260 km
The Moon is 390 260 km (242 496 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 5 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 474 km (251 328 mi).
Moon before ascending node
7 days after descending node on 20 August 2087 at 13:00 in ♉ Taurus. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 3 September 2087 at 03:54 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
21 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
5 days since the previous standstill on 22 August 2087 at 16:14 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠20.473°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-20.343° at the point of next southern standstill on 5 September 2087 at 19:29 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.
