Waxing
Crescent ♒ Aquarius
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New Moon
New Moon is the lunar phase on . Surface of the Moon disc is not illuminated. The 1 day young Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 29 January 2025 at 12:36 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 ∠9° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1898" and ∠1948".
Snow Moon after 14 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2025 after 14 days on 12 February 2025 at 13:53.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 5 February 2025 at 08:02
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 12 February 2025 at 13:53
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 20 February 2025 at 17:33
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 28 February 2025 at 00:45
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 310 / 1263
At 12:36 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 310 of Meeus index or 1263 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.51 days
29 days, 12 hours and 9 minutes is the length of new lunation 310. It is 1 hour and 56 minutes longer than next lunation 311 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 35 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 34 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠305.9°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠305.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠329.3°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon before perigee
8 days after point of apogee on 21 January 2025 at 04:55 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 3 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 2 February 2025 at 02:43 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 377 724 km
Moon is 377 724 km (234 707 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 3 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 367 457 km (228 327 mi).
Moon before ascending node
10 days after its descending node on 19 January 2025 at 01:48 in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 3 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 1 February 2025 at 22:06 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
23 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
2 days after previous South standstill on 26 January 2025 at 13:27 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-28.534°. Next 9 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠28.599° in the next northern standstill on 8 February 2025 at 10:40 in ♊ Gemini.
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.