New Moon
New MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

New Moon in Capricorn

New Moon on . The illuminated surface of the Moon is 0%. Lunar cycle is less than 1 day young.

* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 13 January 2021 at 05:00 UTC.

Moonrise and moonset

The moon rises at sunrise and sets at sunset. It's part facing the Earth is completely in shadow.

Moon phases on nearby dates

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Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♑ Capricorn

Moon is leaving the last ∠3° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♒ Aquarius later.

Wolf Moon after 15 days

Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2021 after 15 days on 28 January 2021 at 19:16.

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.

Apparent angular diameter

Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1892" and ∠1951".

New lunation 260 / 1213

At 05:00 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 260 of Meeus index or lunation 1213 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.59 days

The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 5 minutes. It is 1 hour and 10 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit 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 1 hour and 21 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 42 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠53.8°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠53.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠87°.

Moon after perigee

3 days since point of perigee on 9 January 2021 at 15:39 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 21 January 2021 at 13:11 in ♉ Taurus.

Distance to Moon 378 897 km

The Moon is 378 897 km (235 436 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 8 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 361 km (251 258 mi).

Moon after descending node

2 days after descending node on 10 January 2021 at 20:15 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 24 January 2021 at 21:47 in ♊ Gemini.

Moon after southern standstill

1 day since the last southern standstill on 12 January 2021 at 08:18 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-24.870° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 13 days to face maximum declination of ∠24.898° at the point of next northern standstill on 26 January 2021 at 15:39 in ♋ Cancer.

Draconic month

15 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy

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

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com

Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov