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Moon phase on 5 January 2019 Saturday is New Moon, 1 day young Moon is in Capricorn.

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Lunar calendar 2019 | January 2019

New Moon phase
New Moon phase
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 6 January 2019 at 01:28 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 ∠9° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.

Apparent angular diameter

Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1789" and ∠1951".

Wolf Moon after 15 days

Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2019 after 15 days on 21 January 2019 at 05:16.

Upcoming main Moon phases

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 234 / 1187

At 07:20 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 234 of Meeus index or 1187 from Brown series.

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Synodic month length 29.76 days

The length of the lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 8 minutes. It is 1 hour and 27 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 longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 24 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 39 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit position on

True anomaly ∠116.6°

The true anomaly is ∠116.6°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠149.4°.

Moon before perigee

12 days after point of perigee on 24 December 2018 at 09:52 in ♋ Cancer. 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 9 January 2019 at 04:29 in ♒ Aquarius.

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Distance to Moon 400 569 km

The Moon is 400 569 km (248 902 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 116 km (252 349 mi).

Moon before descending node

12 days after ascending node on 24 December 2018 at 11:54 in ♋ Cancer. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 7 January 2019 at 00:08 in ♒ Aquarius.

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Draconic month

12 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.

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Moon at southern standstill

At 18:45 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-21.553°. Over the next 14 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠21.544° at the point of next standstill in ♋ Cancer on 19 January 2019 at 23:20.

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Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy

The Moon is in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.

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