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The Moon on Sunday, August 19, 2001: New Moon, 0% lit

Waxing · 0.4% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 01°

New Moon at

02:55UTC

Moon phase on August 19, 2001New Moon

Sunday 19 August 2001357,217 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, August 19, 2001, the Moon was a New Moon: 0.4% of its visible face lit, 29.7 days after the new moon and between the Earth and the Sun, so it is not visible. The exact New Moon happened at .

0.4%Illumination at noon UTC
29.7 dMoon age
357,217 km221,964 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (2°)
33.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
NewDark side faces Earth

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 19, 2001 is on Sunday, September 2, 2001 at 21:43 UTC, 14 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, August 19, 2001 at 02:55 UTC, the same day.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Sunday, August 12, 200107:53
New Moon (this day)Sunday, August 19, 200102:55
First Quarter (after)Saturday, August 25, 200119:55

The Moon around August 19

More about this date

Sunday, August 19, 2001 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 19, 2001 to the new moon of September 17, 2001, a cycle of 29.31 days.