Waxing
Crescent ♑ Capricorn
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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 ♑ Capricorn.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 28 December 2073 at 16:55 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 ∠5° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1921" and ∠1951".
Wolf Moon after 15 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2074 after 15 days on 13 January 2074 at 06:31.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 5 January 2074 at 06:18
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 13 January 2074 at 06:31
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 20 January 2074 at 08:20
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 27 January 2074 at 06:37
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 915 / 1868
At 16:55 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 915 of Meeus index or 1868 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.57 days
29 days, 13 hours and 42 minutes is the length of new lunation 915. It is 1 hour and 41 minutes shorter than next lunation 916 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 58 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 6 hours and 5 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠43.1°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠43.1°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠72.6°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon after perigee
2 days after point of perigee on 25 December 2073 at 23:45 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 9 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 6 January 2074 at 17:28 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 373 123 km
Moon is 373 123 km (231 848 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 9 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 632 km (251 427 mi).
Moon before descending node
10 days after its ascending node on 18 December 2073 at 11:14 in ♌ Leo, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 2 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 31 December 2073 at 05:26 in ♒ Aquarius.
Draconic month
10 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♌ Leo, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon in southern standstill
At 21:38 on this date the Moon is meeting its South standstill point, when it will reach southern declination of ∠-20.262°. This is the year's southernmost lunar standstill of 2073. Next 14 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite northward direction to face North declination of ∠20.258° in its northern standstill point on 12 January 2074 at 06:32 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.