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 less than 1 day young Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 23 December 2022 at 10:17 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 is entering ♑ Capricorn
Moon is passing first ∠3° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1963" and ∠1951".
Wolf Moon after 14 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2023 after 14 days on 6 January 2023 at 23:08.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 30 December 2022 at 01:21
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 6 January 2023 at 23:08
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 15 January 2023 at 02:10
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 21 January 2023 at 20:53
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 284 / 1237
At 10:17 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 284 of Meeus index or 1237 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.44 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 36 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2022. It is 23 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 8 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 1 minute longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠344.3°
The true anomaly is ∠344.3°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠360°.
Moon before apogee
11 days after point of apogee on 12 December 2022 at 00:30 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 24 December 2022 at 08:32 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 365 125 km
The Moon is 365 125 km (226 878 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 270 km (222 619 mi).
Moon after descending node
3 days after descending node on 20 December 2022 at 01:36 in ♏ Scorpio. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 9 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 1 January 2023 at 15:25 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
17 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon at southern standstill
At 18:18 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-27.418°. Over the next 13 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠27.406° at the point of next standstill in ♋ Cancer on 6 January 2023 at 03:08.
Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy
The Moon is in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.
