Waxing
Crescent ♑ Capricorn
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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 ♐ Sagittarius.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 3 December 2013 at 00:22 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 ♐ Sagittarius
Moon is passing about ∠18° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1958" and ∠1947".
Cold Moon after 13 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2013 after 13 days on 17 December 2013 at 09:28.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 9 December 2013 at 15:12
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 17 December 2013 at 09:28
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 25 December 2013 at 13:48
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 1 January 2014 at 11:14
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 172 / 1125
At 00:22 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 172 of Meeus index or 1125 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.45 days
29 days, 10 hours and 52 minutes is the length of new lunation 172. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2013. It is 28 minutes longer than next lunation 173 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 52 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 17 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠336.4°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠336.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠353°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon before perigee
11 days after point of apogee on 22 November 2013 at 09:50 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next day, until it get to the point of next perigee on 4 December 2013 at 10:15 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 366 075 km
Moon is 366 075 km (227 468 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next day until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 360 065 km (223 734 mi).
Moon after ascending node
2 days after its ascending node on 30 November 2013 at 16:59 in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 9 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 13 December 2013 at 10:10 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
2 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon in southern standstill
At 16:38 on this date the Moon is meeting its South standstill point, when it will reach southern declination of ∠-19.552°. Next 13 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite northward direction to face North declination of ∠19.570° in its northern standstill point on 17 December 2013 at 01:00 in ♊ Gemini.
Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy
The Moon is in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun on this date and this alignment forms Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.