Moon phase on 16 July 2015 Thursday is New Moon, less than 1 day young Moon is in Cancer.
New Moon is the lunar phase on 16 July 2015, Thursday . 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 16 July 2015 at 01:24 UTC.
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1814" and ∠1888".
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2015 after 14 days on 31 July 2015 at 10:43.
At 01:24 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 192 of Meeus index or 1145 from Brown series.
29 days, 13 hours and 29 minutes is the length of new lunation 192. It is 2 hours and 19 minutes shorter than next lunation 193 length.
10 days after point of perigee on 5 July 2015 at 18:54 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 4 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 21 July 2015 at 11:02 in ♍ Virgo.
Moon is 395 164 km (245 544 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 4 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 837 km (251 554 mi).
8 days after its descending node on 8 July 2015 at 00:07 in ♈ Aries, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 5 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 21 July 2015 at 19:32 in ♍ Virgo.
2 days after previous North standstill on 14 July 2015 at 04:24 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠18.417°. Next 12 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-18.344° in the next southern standstill on 28 July 2015 at 17:34 in ♐ Sagittarius.