Waxing
Crescent ♒ Aquarius
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 ♒ Aquarius.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 24 January 2077 at 12:45 UTC.
Moon phases for next 7 days
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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 ♒ Aquarius
Moon is passing about ∠5° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1955" and ∠1949".
Snow Moon after 14 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2077 after 14 days on 7 February 2077 at 23:08.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 31 January 2077 at 03:35
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 7 February 2077 at 23:08
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 16 February 2077 at 02:58
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 22 February 2077 at 23:07
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 953 / 1906
At 12:45 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 953 of Meeus index or 1906 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.43 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 21 minutes. It is 1 hour and 3 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 23 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 46 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠339.5°
The true anomaly is ∠339.5°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠355.5°.
Moon before apogee
10 days after point of apogee on 13 January 2077 at 15:13 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 25 January 2077 at 18:01 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 366 621 km
The Moon is 366 621 km (227 808 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 359 336 km (223 281 mi).
Moon after descending node
3 days after descending node on 21 January 2077 at 03:21 in ♐ Sagittarius. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 9 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 2 February 2077 at 17:16 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
17 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, 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 22 January 2077 at 20:40 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-25.115°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠25.148° at the point of next northern standstill on 4 February 2077 at 17:05 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.
