Waxing
Crescent ♑ Capricorn
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 ♐ Sagittarius.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 24 December 2049 at 17:51 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 is entering ♐ Sagittarius
Moon is passing first ∠0° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1941" and ∠1951".
Wolf Moon after 14 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2050 after 14 days on 8 January 2050 at 01:39.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 31 December 2049 at 08:53
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 8 January 2050 at 01:39
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 16 January 2050 at 06:17
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 23 January 2050 at 04:57
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.
New lunation 618 / 1571
At 17:51 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 618 of Meeus index or 1571 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.46 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 5 minutes. It is 58 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 39 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 30 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠332.9°
The true anomaly is ∠332.9°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠350.1°.
Moon before apogee
10 days after point of apogee on 14 December 2049 at 11:17 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 26 December 2049 at 08:57 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 369 382 km
The Moon is 369 382 km (229 523 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 360 939 km (224 277 mi).
Moon after ascending node
2 days after ascending node on 22 December 2049 at 10:13 in ♏ Scorpio. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 10 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 4 January 2050 at 03:20 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
2 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
1 day since the previous standstill on 23 December 2049 at 17:33 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-21.275°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠21.260° at the point of next northern standstill on 5 January 2050 at 16:08 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.
