Waxing
Crescent ♑ Capricorn
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 ♐ Sagittarius.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 18 December 2017 at 06:31 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 ♐ Sagittarius
Moon is leaving the last ∠1° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1950".
Wolf Moon after 14 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2018 after 14 days on 2 January 2018 at 02:24.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 26 December 2017 at 09:20
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 2 January 2018 at 02:24
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 8 January 2018 at 22:25
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 17 January 2018 at 02:17
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 222 / 1175
At 06:30 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 222 of Meeus index or 1175 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.82 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 47 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2017. It is 59 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 7 hours and 3 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length and it is the longest synodic month length of 21st century.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠173.3°
The true anomaly is ∠173.3°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠198.1°.
Moon before perigee
14 days after point of perigee on 4 December 2017 at 08:42 in ♊ Gemini. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 19 December 2017 at 01:27 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 405 413 km
The Moon is 405 413 km (251 912 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 605 km (252 653 mi).
Moon before descending node
10 days after ascending node on 8 December 2017 at 00:39 in ♌ Leo. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 3 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 22 December 2017 at 10:04 in ♒ Aquarius.
Draconic month
10 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♌ Leo, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
13 days since the previous standstill on 5 December 2017 at 11:43 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠20.015°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-20.062° at the point of next southern standstill on 19 December 2017 at 09:31 in ♑ Capricorn.
Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy
The Moon is in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.
