Waxing
Crescent ♒ Aquarius
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 ♑ Capricorn.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 11 January 2043 at 06:53 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 ♑ Capricorn
Moon is passing about ∠24° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1851" and ∠1951".
Wolf Moon after 13 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2043 after 13 days on 25 January 2043 at 06:56.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 18 January 2043 at 09:05
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 25 January 2043 at 06:56
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 2 February 2043 at 04:14
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 9 February 2043 at 21:07
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 532 / 1485
At 06:53 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 532 of Meeus index or 1485 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.59 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 14 minutes. It is 2 hours and 12 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 30 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 33 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠269.3°
The true anomaly is ∠269.3°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠303°.
Moon after apogee
6 days after point of apogee on 4 January 2043 at 19:56 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 19 January 2043 at 20:02 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 387 216 km
The Moon is 387 216 km (240 605 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 914 km (229 854 mi).
Moon before ascending node
8 days after descending node on 3 January 2043 at 07:24 in ♎ Libra. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 17 January 2043 at 04:57 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
21 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
1 day since the previous standstill on 9 January 2043 at 20:09 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.311°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.367° at the point of next northern standstill on 22 January 2043 at 21:28 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.
