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 16 December 2085 at 22:38 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 is entering ♑ Capricorn

Moon is passing first ∠3° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.

Cold Moon after 13 days

Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2085 after 13 days on 30 December 2085 at 23:59.

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 ∠1909" and ∠1950".

New lunation 1063 / 2016

At 22:38 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 1063 of Meeus index or lunation 2016 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.53 days

The length of the lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 46 minutes. It is 1 hour and 43 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 2 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 7 hours and 1 minute shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠305°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠305° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠329.2°.

Moon before perigee

8 days since point of apogee on 8 December 2085 at 15:54 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 20 December 2085 at 14:38 in ♒ Aquarius.

Distance to Moon 375 390 km

The Moon is 375 390 km (233 257 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 367 571 km (228 398 mi).

Moon after ascending node

1 day after ascending node on 16 December 2085 at 17:31 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 29 December 2085 at 15:40 in ♊ Gemini.

Moon after southern standstill

1 day since the last southern standstill on 16 December 2085 at 09:38 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-23.307° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠23.313° at the point of next northern standstill on 29 December 2085 at 07:22 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first 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