Waxing
Crescent ♒ Aquarius
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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 26 January 2047 at 01:44 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 ∠11° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1830" and ∠1949".
Snow Moon after 15 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2047 after 15 days on 10 February 2047 at 14:40.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 3 February 2047 at 03:09
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 10 February 2047 at 14:40
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 17 February 2047 at 06:42
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 24 February 2047 at 18:26
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 582 / 1535
At 01:44 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 582 of Meeus index or 1535 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.7 days
29 days, 16 hours and 42 minutes is the length of new lunation 582. It is 36 minutes shorter than next lunation 583 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 3 hours and 58 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours and 5 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠96.2°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠96.2°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠133°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon before apogee
9 days after point of perigee on 16 January 2047 at 21:10 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 5 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 1 February 2047 at 06:34 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 391 607 km
Moon is 391 607 km (243 333 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 5 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 793 km (251 527 mi).
Moon after ascending node
1 day after its ascending node on 25 January 2047 at 05:56 in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 13 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 8 February 2047 at 17:13 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
1 day after beginning of current draconic month in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
3 days after previous South standstill on 22 January 2047 at 15:26 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-26.072°. Next 10 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠26.040° in the next northern standstill on 6 February 2047 at 02:09 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.