New
Moon ♒ 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 1 day young Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 5 February 2046 at 23:10 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 ♒ Aquarius
Moon is passing about ∠12° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1779" and ∠1946".
Snow Moon after 15 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2046 after 15 days on 20 February 2046 at 23:44.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 14 February 2046 at 03:20
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 20 February 2046 at 23:44
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 27 February 2046 at 16:23
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 7 March 2046 at 18:15
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 570 / 1523
At 23:10 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 570 of Meeus index or 1523 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.8 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 6 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2046. It is 1 hour and 30 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 22 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 41 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠159.4°
The true anomaly is ∠159.4°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠184.1°.
Moon before perigee
12 days after point of perigee on 23 January 2046 at 19:02 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 8 February 2046 at 05:11 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 402 915 km
The Moon is 402 915 km (250 360 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 331 km (252 482 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♒ Aquarius at 15:45 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 14 days later on 19 February 2046 at 17:48 in ♌ Leo.
New draconic month
At 15:45 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon after southern standstill
4 days since the previous standstill on 1 February 2046 at 11:30 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.313°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.295° at the point of next northern standstill on 16 February 2046 at 04:45 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.
