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 1 day young Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 2 January 2022 at 18:33 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 ∠8° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1967" and ∠1951".
Wolf Moon after 15 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2022 after 15 days on 17 January 2022 at 23:49.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 9 January 2022 at 18:11
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 17 January 2022 at 23:49
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 25 January 2022 at 13:41
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 1 February 2022 at 05:46
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 272 / 1225
At 18:33 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 272 of Meeus index or 1225 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.47 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 13 minutes. It is 36 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 32 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 38 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠13.9°
The true anomaly is ∠13.9°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠32°.
Moon after perigee
1 day after point of perigee on 1 January 2022 at 23:00 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 14 January 2022 at 09:27 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 364 398 km
The Moon is 364 398 km (226 426 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 806 km (252 156 mi).
Moon after descending node
2 days after descending node on 31 December 2021 at 01:07 in ♐ Sagittarius. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 10 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 13 January 2022 at 04:19 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
16 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 at southern standstill
At 13:35 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-26.304°. This is the year's southernmost lunar standstill of 2022. Over the next 13 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠26.310° at the point of next standstill in ♋ Cancer on 16 January 2022 at 10:16.
Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy
The Moon is in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.
