New
Moon ♑ 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 ♑ Capricorn.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 30 December 2062 at 16:57 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 ∠7° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1781" and ∠1951".
Wolf Moon after 15 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2063 after 15 days on 14 January 2063 at 19:11.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 7 January 2063 at 22:16
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 14 January 2063 at 19:11
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 21 January 2063 at 12:05
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 29 January 2063 at 12:23
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 779 / 1732
At 16:57 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 779 of Meeus index or 1732 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.81 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 26 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2062. It is 11 minutes longer 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 6 hours and 42 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 21 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠154.3°
The true anomaly is ∠154.3°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠179.8°.
Moon before perigee
4 days after point of perigee on 26 December 2062 at 08:56 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 2 January 2063 at 10:03 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 402 444 km
The Moon is 402 444 km (250 067 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 278 km (252 449 mi).
Moon before ascending node
8 days after descending node on 21 December 2062 at 21:32 in ♍ Virgo. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 5 January 2063 at 05:33 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
21 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
1 day since the previous standstill on 29 December 2062 at 18:12 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.306°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 13 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.364° at the point of next northern standstill on 13 January 2063 at 00:22 in ♋ Cancer.
Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy
The Moon is in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.
