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 ♐ Sagittarius.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 14 December 2031 at 09:06 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 ∠24° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1950" and ∠1949".
Cold Moon after 14 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2031 after 14 days on 28 December 2031 at 17:33.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 21 December 2031 at 00:00
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 28 December 2031 at 17:33
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 5 January 2032 at 22:04
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 12 January 2032 at 20:07
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 395 / 1348
At 09:06 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 395 of Meeus index or 1348 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.46 days
29 days, 11 hours and 1 minute is the length of new lunation 395. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2031. It is 43 minutes longer than next lunation 396 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 43 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 26 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠334.7°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠334.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠351.6°. 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
10 days after point of apogee on 3 December 2031 at 22:35 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next day, until it get to the point of next perigee on 15 December 2031 at 21:31 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 367 588 km
Moon is 367 588 km (228 409 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next day until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 360 489 km (223 997 mi).
Moon after ascending node
2 days after its ascending node on 12 December 2031 at 01:37 in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 10 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 24 December 2031 at 18:44 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
2 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon in southern standstill
At 04:45 on this date the Moon is meeting its South standstill point, when it will reach southern declination of ∠-20.356°. Next 12 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite northward direction to face North declination of ∠20.355° in its northern standstill point on 27 December 2031 at 07:41 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.