Waxing
Crescent ♒ Aquarius
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Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
New Moon
New Moon is the lunar phase on . Surface of the Moon disc is not illuminated. The 1 day young Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 10 January 2005 at 12:03 UTC.
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Moon phase and lunation details
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises at sunrise and sets at sunset. It's part facing the Earth is completely in shadow.
Moon in ♑ Capricorn
Moon is passing about ∠20° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1951".
Wolf Moon after 14 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2005 after 14 days on 25 January 2005 at 10:32.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 17 January 2005 at 06:58
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 25 January 2005 at 10:32
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 2 February 2005 at 07:27
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 8 February 2005 at 22:28
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 62 / 1015
At 12:03 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 62 of Meeus index or 1015 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.43 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 25 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2005. It is 17 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 19 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 50 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠1.4°
The true anomaly is ∠1.4°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠17.1°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 10:07. It is 13 days after previous apogee on 27 December 2004 at 19:15 in ♋ Cancer. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 13 days, until point of next apogee on 23 January 2005 at 18:54 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 356 572 km
This perigee Moon is 356 572 km (221 564 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's closest perigee of 2005. It is 5 936 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 147 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon after descending node
5 days after descending node on 4 January 2005 at 21:52 in ♎ Libra. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 6 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 17 January 2005 at 07:32 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
20 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
1 day since the previous standstill on 9 January 2005 at 11:17 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.938°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.973° at the point of next northern standstill on 22 January 2005 at 19:22 in ♊ Gemini.
Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy
The Moon is in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.
