Waxing
Crescent ♓ Pisces
Moon phase for
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 less than 1 day young Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 3 February 2011 at 02:31 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 ♒ Aquarius
Moon is passing about ∠19° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1787" and ∠1947".
Snow Moon after 14 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2011 after 14 days on 18 February 2011 at 08:36.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 11 February 2011 at 07:18
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 18 February 2011 at 08:36
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 24 February 2011 at 23:26
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 4 March 2011 at 20:46
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 137 / 1090
At 02:31 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 137 of Meeus index or 1090 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.76 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 15 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2011. It is 29 minutes longer 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 31 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 32 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠139.2°
The true anomaly is ∠139.2°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠167°.
Moon before perigee
12 days after point of perigee on 22 January 2011 at 00:10 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 6 February 2011 at 23:13 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 401 089 km
The Moon is 401 089 km (249 225 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 924 km (252 229 mi).
Moon after ascending node
3 days after ascending node on 30 January 2011 at 18:29 in ♐ Sagittarius. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 10 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 14 February 2011 at 08:14 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
3 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
4 days since the previous standstill on 29 January 2011 at 16:26 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-24.180°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠24.080° at the point of next northern standstill on 13 February 2011 at 09:00 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.
