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Moon phase on 6 January 2019 Sunday is New Moon, less than 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 less than 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 ∠21° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.

Apparent angular diameter

Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1778" and ∠1951".

Wolf Moon after 14 days

Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2019 after 14 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 235 / 1188

At 01:28 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 235 of Meeus index or 1188 from Brown series.

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Synodic month length 29.82 days

The length of the lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 35 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2019. It is 35 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 6 hours and 51 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 12 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit position on

True anomaly ∠149.4°

The true anomaly is ∠149.4°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠175.6°.

Moon before perigee

13 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 2 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 403 078 km

The Moon is 403 078 km (250 461 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 116 km (252 349 mi).

Moon before descending node

13 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

13 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 after southern standstill

1 day since the previous standstill on 5 January 2019 at 18:45 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-21.553°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 13 days to face maximum declination of ∠21.544° at the point of next northern standstill on 19 January 2019 at 23:20 in ♋ Cancer.

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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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