New Moon
New MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

New Moon in Aquarius

New Moon on . The illuminated surface of the Moon is 0%. Lunar cycle is less than 1 day young.

* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 20 January 2072 at 06:35 UTC.

Moonrise and moonset

The moon rises at sunrise and sets at sunset. It's part facing the Earth is completely in shadow.

Moon phases on nearby dates

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Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon is entering ♒ Aquarius

Moon is passing first ∠3° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.

Snow Moon after 14 days

Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2072 after 14 days on 4 February 2072 at 04:55.

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.

Apparent angular diameter

Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1770" and ∠1950".

New lunation 891 / 1844

At 06:35 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 891 of Meeus index or lunation 1844 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.81 days

The length of the lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 29 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2072. It is 1 hour and 11 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit 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 44 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 18 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠166.3°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠166.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠190.8°.

Moon before apogee

13 days since point of perigee on 6 January 2072 at 17:46 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 21 January 2072 at 20:00 in ♒ Aquarius.

Distance to Moon 404 937 km

The Moon is 404 937 km (251 616 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 490 km (252 581 mi).

Moon before descending node

10 days after ascending node on 10 January 2072 at 03:26 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 24 January 2072 at 10:50 in ♓ Pisces.

Moon after southern standstill

2 days since the last southern standstill on 18 January 2072 at 00:05 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.436° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.364° at the point of next northern standstill on 1 February 2072 at 09:58 in ♋ Cancer.

Draconic month

10 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy

The Moon is in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com

Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov