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.
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 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
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 1 minute. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2031. It is 43 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 43 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 26 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠334.7°
The true anomaly is ∠334.7°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠351.6°.
Moon before apogee
10 days after point of apogee on 3 December 2031 at 22:35 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 15 December 2031 at 21:31 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 367 588 km
The Moon is 367 588 km (228 409 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 360 489 km (223 997 mi).
Moon after ascending node
2 days after ascending node on 12 December 2031 at 01:37 in ♏ Scorpio. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 10 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 24 December 2031 at 18:44 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
2 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon at southern standstill
At 04:45 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-20.356°. Over the next 12 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠20.355° at the point of next standstill in ♊ Gemini on 27 December 2031 at 07:41.
Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy
The Moon is in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.
