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 ♑ Capricorn.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 1 January 2071 at 12:15 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 ∠11° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1951".
Wolf Moon after 14 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2071 after 14 days on 16 January 2071 at 02:35.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 9 January 2071 at 11:08
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 16 January 2071 at 02:35
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 23 January 2071 at 02:16
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 31 January 2071 at 07:16
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 878 / 1831
At 12:15 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 878 of Meeus index or 1831 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.79 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 1 minute. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2071. It is 1 hour and 44 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 6 hours and 16 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 47 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠187.9°
The true anomaly is ∠187.9°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠214.7°.
Moon after apogee
1 day after point of apogee on 31 December 2070 at 14:10 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 13 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 15 January 2071 at 08:40 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 405 243 km
The Moon is 405 243 km (251 806 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 13 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 535 km (222 162 mi).
Moon after ascending node
7 days after ascending node on 25 December 2070 at 04:13 in ♎ Libra. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 7 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 8 January 2071 at 19:49 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
7 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, 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 31 December 2070 at 07:48 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.553°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.487° at the point of next northern standstill on 14 January 2071 at 05:41 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.
