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 ♒ Aquarius.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 18 January 2045 at 04:25 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 is entering ♒ Aquarius
Moon is passing first ∠2° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1950".
Snow Moon after 14 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2045 after 14 days on 1 February 2045 at 21:05.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 26 January 2045 at 05:09
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 1 February 2045 at 21:05
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 8 February 2045 at 19:03
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 16 February 2045 at 23:51
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 557 / 1510
At 04:25 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 557 of Meeus index or 1510 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.81 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 26 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2045. It is 2 hours and 2 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 6 hours and 42 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 21 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠182.1°
The true anomaly is ∠182.1°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠207.6°.
Moon after apogee
1 day after point of apogee on 17 January 2045 at 22:35 in ♑ Capricorn. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 13 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 1 February 2045 at 08:43 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 405 397 km
The Moon is 405 397 km (251 902 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 13 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 106 km (221 895 mi).
Moon before ascending node
11 days after descending node on 6 January 2045 at 16:49 in ♌ Leo. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 2 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 21 January 2045 at 00:16 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
24 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
3 days since the previous standstill on 15 January 2045 at 09:52 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.098°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.156° at the point of next northern standstill on 29 January 2045 at 16:53 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.
