New
Moon ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
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New Moon
New Moon is the lunar phase on . Surface of the Moon disc is not illuminated. The 1 day young Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 31 January 2052 at 18:30 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 ∠8° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1861" and ∠1947".
Snow Moon after 14 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2052 after 14 days on 14 February 2052 at 18:21.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 7 February 2052 at 17:35
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 14 February 2052 at 18:21
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 22 February 2052 at 18:44
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 1 March 2052 at 07:36
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 644 / 1597
At 18:30 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 644 of Meeus index or 1597 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.55 days
29 days, 13 hours and 6 minutes is the length of new lunation 644. It is 2 hours and 15 minutes longer than next lunation 645 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 22 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 6 hours and 41 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠285.5°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠285.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠314.8°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon before perigee
6 days after point of apogee on 24 January 2052 at 12:51 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 6 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 6 February 2052 at 18:01 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 385 071 km
Moon is 385 071 km (239 272 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 6 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 370 138 km (229 993 mi).
Moon before descending node
8 days after its ascending node on 22 January 2052 at 12:23 in ♎ Libra, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 4 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 5 February 2052 at 10:04 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
8 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
3 days after previous South standstill on 28 January 2052 at 05:17 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-18.646°. Next 9 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠18.554° in the next northern standstill on 10 February 2052 at 09:08 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.