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 less than 1 day young Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 13 January 2021 at 05:00 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 ∠3° 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 ∠1892" and ∠1951".
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.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 20 January 2021 at 21:02
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 28 January 2021 at 19:16
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 4 February 2021 at 17:37
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 11 February 2021 at 19:06
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 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 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 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 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 position on
True anomaly ∠53.8°
The true anomaly is ∠53.8°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠87°.
Moon after perigee
3 days after 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 located south of the ecliptic over the following 11 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 24 January 2021 at 21:47 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
15 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
1 day since the previous 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.
Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy
The Moon is in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.
