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
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 51 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2049. It is 5 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the 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 1 hour and 53 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 16 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠3.8°
The true anomaly is ∠3.8°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠20°.
Moon after perigee
1 day after point of perigee on 3 January 2049 at 21:03 in ♑ Capricorn. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 17 January 2049 at 00:48 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 363 750 km
The Moon is 363 750 km (226 024 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 12 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 228 km (252 418 mi).
Moon after ascending node
2 days after ascending node on 2 January 2049 at 09:51 in ♐ Sagittarius. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 15 January 2049 at 14:48 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
2 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
2 days since the previous standstill on 2 January 2049 at 09:17 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-22.914°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠22.889° at the point of next northern standstill on 15 January 2049 at 14:32 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.
