Waxing
Crescent ♓ Pisces
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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 ♒ Aquarius.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 1 February 2022 at 05:46 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 ♒ Aquarius
Moon is passing about ∠16° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1931" and ∠1947".
Snow Moon after 15 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2022 after 15 days on 16 February 2022 at 16:57.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 8 February 2022 at 13:50
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 16 February 2022 at 16:57
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 23 February 2022 at 22:32
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 2 March 2022 at 17:35
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 273 / 1226
At 05:46 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 273 of Meeus index or 1226 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.49 days
29 days, 11 hours and 49 minutes is the length of new lunation 273. It is 1 hour and 1 minute shorter than next lunation 274 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 55 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 14 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠32°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠32°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠56.3°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon after perigee
2 days after point of perigee on 30 January 2022 at 07:09 in ♑ Capricorn. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 9 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 11 February 2022 at 02:39 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 371 190 km
Moon is 371 190 km (230 647 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 9 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 897 km (251 591 mi).
Moon after descending node
5 days after its descending node on 27 January 2022 at 06:14 in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 7 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 9 February 2022 at 06:12 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
19 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
2 days after previous South standstill on 29 January 2022 at 23:26 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-26.369°. Next 11 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠26.444° in the next northern standstill on 12 February 2022 at 16:45 in ♋ Cancer.
Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy
The Moon is in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun on this date and this alignment forms Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.