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 less than 1 day young Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 4 January 2030 at 02:49 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 ∠19° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1914" and ∠1951".
Wolf Moon after 15 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2030 after 15 days on 19 January 2030 at 15:54.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 11 January 2030 at 14:06
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 19 January 2030 at 15:54
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 26 January 2030 at 18:14
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 2 February 2030 at 16:07
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 371 / 1324
At 02:49 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 371 of Meeus index or 1324 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.55 days
29 days, 13 hours and 18 minutes is the length of new lunation 371. It is 1 hour and 9 minutes shorter than next lunation 372 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 34 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 6 hours and 29 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠39.8°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠39.8°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠67.6°. 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 1 January 2030 at 15:33 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 8 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 13 January 2030 at 08:51 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 374 437 km
Moon is 374 437 km (232 664 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 8 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 647 km (251 436 mi).
Moon after ascending node
1 day after its ascending node on 2 January 2030 at 20:31 in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 12 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 16 January 2030 at 22:41 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
1 day after beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
2 days after previous South standstill on 2 January 2030 at 08:17 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-23.575°. Next 11 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠23.549° in the next northern standstill on 16 January 2030 at 08:26 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.