Waxing
Crescent ♐ Sagittarius
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 ♐ Sagittarius.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 25 November 2030 at 06:46 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 ♐ Sagittarius
Moon is passing about ∠6° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1970" and ∠1944".
Cold Moon after 14 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2030 after 14 days on 9 December 2030 at 22:40.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 1 December 2030 at 22:57
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 9 December 2030 at 22:40
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 18 December 2030 at 00:01
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 24 December 2030 at 17:32
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 382 / 1335
At 06:46 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 382 of Meeus index or 1335 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.45 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 46 minutes. It is 13 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 58 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 11 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠349.8°
The true anomaly is ∠349.8°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠5.3°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 21:07. It is 12 days after previous apogee on 13 November 2030 at 05:00 in ♊ Gemini. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 14 days, until point of next apogee on 10 December 2030 at 10:03 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 357 521 km
This perigee Moon is 357 521 km (222 153 mi) away from Earth. It is 4 987 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 12 835 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♏ Scorpio at 13:32 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 13 days later on 9 December 2030 at 01:17 in ♊ Gemini.
New draconic month
At 13:32 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon before southern standstill
12 days since the previous standstill on 12 November 2030 at 16:17 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠21.904°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-21.903° at the point of next southern standstill on 26 November 2030 at 06:20 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy
The Moon is in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.
