Waxing
Crescent ♒ Aquarius
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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 25 January 2085 at 20:06 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 is entering ♒ Aquarius
Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1949".
Snow Moon after 15 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2085 after 15 days on 9 February 2085 at 18:24.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 1 February 2085 at 14:36
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 9 February 2085 at 18:24
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 17 February 2085 at 14:47
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 24 February 2085 at 06:32
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 1052 / 2005
At 20:07 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 1052 of Meeus index or 2005 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.43 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 26 minutes. It is 21 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 19 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 51 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠0.9°
The true anomaly is ∠0.9°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠16.7°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 18:46. It is 13 days after previous apogee on 12 January 2085 at 05:03 in ♌ Leo. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 13 days, until point of next apogee on 8 February 2085 at 04:48 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 356 735 km
This perigee Moon is 356 735 km (221 665 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's closest perigee of 2085. It is 5 773 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 310 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon after ascending node
1 day after ascending node on 24 January 2085 at 03:41 in ♑ Capricorn. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 6 February 2085 at 07:10 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
1 day since the beginning of current draconic month in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
2 days since the previous standstill on 22 January 2085 at 16:49 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-24.889°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠24.854° at the point of next northern standstill on 4 February 2085 at 12:06 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.
