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 less than 1 day young Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 11 December 2061 at 22:32 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 ♐ Sagittarius
Moon is leaving the last ∠3° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1949".
Cold Moon after 14 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2061 after 14 days on 26 December 2061 at 16:53.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 19 December 2061 at 23:58
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 26 December 2061 at 16:53
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 2 January 2062 at 13:21
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 10 January 2062 at 17:52
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 766 / 1719
At 22:32 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 766 of Meeus index or 1719 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.81 days
29 days, 19 hours and 20 minutes is the length of new lunation 766. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2061. It is 1 hour and 2 minutes longer than next lunation 767 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 6 hours and 36 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 27 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠176.8°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠176.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠201.9°. 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 in apogee
Moon is reaching point of apogee on this date at 07:27, this is 14 days after last perigee on 27 November 2061 at 19:57 in ♊ Gemini. Lunar orbit is starting to get closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth for 26 days ahead, until it will get to the point of next perigee on 8 January 2062 at 09:05 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 406 709 km
This apogee Moon is 406 709 km (252 717 mi) away from Earth. It is 1 301 km farther than the mean apogee distance and it is the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon after descending node
6 days after its descending node on 5 December 2061 at 23:41 in ♎ Libra, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 8 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 20 December 2061 at 15:02 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
19 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon in southern standstill
At 21:05 on this date the Moon is meeting its South standstill point, when it will reach southern declination of ∠-28.385°. Next 13 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite northward direction to face North declination of ∠28.396° in its northern standstill point on 26 December 2061 at 10:29 in ♋ Cancer.
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.