Waxing
Crescent ♒ Aquarius
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 1 day young Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 20 January 2015 at 13:14 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 leaving the last ∠1° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♒ Aquarius later.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1953" and ∠1950".
Snow Moon after 14 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2015 after 14 days on 3 February 2015 at 23:09.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 27 January 2015 at 04:48
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 3 February 2015 at 23:09
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 12 February 2015 at 03:50
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 18 February 2015 at 23:47
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 186 / 1139
At 13:14 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 186 of Meeus index or 1139 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.44 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 34 minutes. It is 45 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 10 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 59 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠338.3°
The true anomaly is ∠338.3°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠354.5°.
Moon before apogee
10 days after point of apogee on 9 January 2015 at 18:17 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 21 January 2015 at 20:06 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 367 050 km
The Moon is 367 050 km (228 074 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 359 643 km (223 472 mi).
Moon before descending node
7 days after ascending node on 12 January 2015 at 15:33 in ♎ Libra. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 4 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 25 January 2015 at 10:23 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
7 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
2 days since the previous standstill on 18 January 2015 at 06:17 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.577°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.513° at the point of next northern standstill on 31 January 2015 at 00:59 in ♋ Cancer.
Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy
The Moon is in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.
