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 1 day young Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 24 December 2030 at 17:32 UTC.
Moon phases for next 7 days
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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 leaving the last ∠1° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1951".
Wolf Moon after 15 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2031 after 15 days on 8 January 2031 at 18:26.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 31 December 2030 at 13:36
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 8 January 2031 at 18:26
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 16 January 2031 at 12:47
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 23 January 2031 at 04:31
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 383 / 1336
At 17:32 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 383 of Meeus index or 1336 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.46 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 59 minutes. It is 19 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 45 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 24 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠5.3°
The true anomaly is ∠5.3°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠21.6°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 10:09. It is 14 days after previous apogee on 10 December 2030 at 10:03 in ♊ Gemini. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 12 days, until point of next apogee on 6 January 2031 at 11:00 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 356 926 km
This perigee Moon is 356 926 km (221 784 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's closest perigee of 2030. It is 5 582 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 501 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon after ascending node
1 day after ascending node on 23 December 2030 at 00:54 in ♐ Sagittarius. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 5 January 2031 at 06:37 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
1 day since the beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
1 day since the previous standstill on 23 December 2030 at 18:07 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-21.904°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠21.889° at the point of next northern standstill on 6 January 2031 at 05:22 in ♊ Gemini.
Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy
The Moon is in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.
