New Moon is the lunar phase on
17 July 2023, Monday. Surface of the Moon disc is not illuminated. The 1 day young Moon is in ♋ Cancer. * The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 17 July 2023 at 18:32 UTC. Previous date |
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Moon phase and lunation details
Moon rises at sunrise and sets at sunset. It's part facing the Earth is completely in shadow. Moon is passing about ∠22° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector. Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1781" and ∠1888". Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2023 after 15 days on 1 August 2023 at 18:31.Moonrise and moonset
Moon in ♋ Cancer
Apparent angular diameter
Sturgeon Moon after 15 days
Upcoming main Moon phases
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 291 / 1244
At 18:32 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 291 of Meeus index or 1244 from Brown series.
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Synodic month length 29.63 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 6 minutes. It is 56 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 2 hours and 22 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 41 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on 17 July 2023 Monday 12:00 UTC
The true anomaly is ∠155.7°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠179.2°. 12 days after point of perigee on 4 July 2023 at 22:28 in ♑ Capricorn. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on
20 July 2023 at 06:56 in ♌ Leo. Previous perigeeNext apogee The Moon is 402 537 km [250 125 mi] away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 291 km [252 458 mi].True anomaly ∠155.7°
Moon before perigee
Distance to Moon 402 537 km
Moon after ascending node
6 days after ascending node on 11 July 2023 at 01:23 in ♉ Taurus. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 8 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 25 July 2023 at 15:05 in ♎ Libra.
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Draconic month
6 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
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Moon after northern standstill
1 day since the previous standstill on 16 July 2023 at 02:40 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.849°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.924° at the point of next southern standstill on 30 July 2023 at 11:13 in ♑ Capricorn.
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Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy
The Moon is in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.
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