New Moon
New MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

New Moon in Sagittarius

New Moon on . Illuminated surface of the Moon is 0%. Lunar cycle is 1 day young.

* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 16 December 2047 at 23:38 UTC.

Moonrise and moonset

Moon rises at sunrise and sets at sunset. It's part facing the Earth is completely in shadow.

Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♐ Sagittarius

Moon is passing about ∠18° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.

Wolf Moon after 15 days

Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2048 after 15 days on 1 January 2048 at 06:57.

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.

Apparent angular diameter

Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1965" and ∠1950".

New lunation 593 / 1546

At 23:38 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 593 of Meeus index or lunation 1546 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.5 days

The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 54 minutes. It is 1 hour and 5 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).

Lunation length shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 50 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 19 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠18.2°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠18.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠37.7°.

Moon after perigee

1 day since point of perigee on 15 December 2047 at 21:51 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 28 December 2047 at 02:49 in ♉ Taurus.

Distance to Moon 364 804 km

The Moon is 364 804 km (226 679 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 621 km (252 041 mi).

Moon before ascending node

11 days after descending node on 4 December 2047 at 17:15 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 17 December 2047 at 18:40 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Moon at southern standstill

At 13:59 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-24.562°. This is the year's southernmost lunar standstill of 2047. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠24.565° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 30 December 2047 at 11:40.

Draconic month

26 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy

The Moon is in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com

Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov