New Moon
New MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

New Moon in Capricorn

New Moon on . The illuminated surface of the Moon is 0%. Lunar cycle is 1 day young.

* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 22 January 2080 at 01:55 UTC.

Moonrise and moonset

The moon rises at sunrise and sets at sunset. It's part facing the Earth is completely in shadow.

Moon phases on nearby dates

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Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♑ Capricorn

Moon is passing about ∠25° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.

Snow Moon after 15 days

Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2080 after 15 days on 5 February 2080 at 12:21.

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.

Apparent angular diameter

Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1771" and ∠1950".

New lunation 989 / 1942

At 06:31 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 989 of Meeus index or lunation 1942 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.81 days

The length of the lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 24 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2080. It is 1 hour and 8 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).

Lunation length longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 6 hours and 40 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 23 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠174.6°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠174.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠199.5°.

Moon after apogee

1 day since point of apogee on 19 January 2080 at 22:45 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 13 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 4 February 2080 at 07:30 in ♋ Cancer.

Distance to Moon 404 804 km

The Moon is 404 804 km (251 534 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 13 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 359 104 km (223 137 mi).

Moon before ascending node

8 days after descending node on 13 January 2080 at 09:00 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 28 January 2080 at 00:20 in ♈ Aries.

Moon after southern standstill

1 day since the last southern standstill on 19 January 2080 at 15:20 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.251° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.345° at the point of next northern standstill on 2 February 2080 at 14:34 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

20 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy

The Moon is in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com

Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov