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 4 January 2049 at 02:24 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 ♑ Capricorn
Moon is passing about ∠20° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1971" and ∠1951".
Wolf Moon after 14 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2049 after 14 days on 19 January 2049 at 02:29.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 10 January 2049 at 21:56
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 19 January 2049 at 02:29
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 26 January 2049 at 21:33
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 2 February 2049 at 13:16
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 606 / 1559
At 02:24 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 606 of Meeus index or 1559 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.45 days
29 days, 10 hours and 51 minutes is the length of new lunation 606. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2049. It is 5 minutes shorter than next lunation 607 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 53 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 16 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠3.8°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠3.8°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠20°. 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 after perigee
1 day after point of perigee on 3 January 2049 at 21:03 in ♑ Capricorn. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 12 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 17 January 2049 at 00:48 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 363 750 km
Moon is 363 750 km (226 024 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 12 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 228 km (252 418 mi).
Moon after ascending node
2 days after its ascending node on 2 January 2049 at 09:51 in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 11 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 15 January 2049 at 14:48 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
2 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
2 days after previous South standstill on 2 January 2049 at 09:17 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-22.914°. Next 11 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠22.889° in the next northern standstill on 15 January 2049 at 14:32 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.