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 ♐ Sagittarius.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 11 December 2099 at 23:09 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 ♐ Sagittarius
Moon is leaving the last ∠2° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1893" and ∠1949".
Cold Moon after 15 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2099 after 15 days on 27 December 2099 at 12:58.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 19 December 2099 at 14:22
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 27 December 2099 at 12:58
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 3 January 2100 at 13:03
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 10 January 2100 at 12:55
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.
New lunation 1236 / 2189
At 23:09 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 1236 of Meeus index or 2189 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.57 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 47 minutes. It is 2 hours and 12 minutes shorter 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 3 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠49.8°
The true anomaly is ∠49.8°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠81.3°.
Moon after perigee
3 days after point of perigee on 8 December 2099 at 17:50 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 20 December 2099 at 13:16 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 378 738 km
The Moon is 378 738 km (235 337 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 8 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 339 km (251 245 mi).
Moon before ascending node
6 days after descending node on 5 December 2099 at 21:04 in ♍ Virgo. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 6 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 19 December 2099 at 01:02 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
20 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon at southern standstill
At 13:59 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-28.351°. This is the year's southernmost lunar standstill of 2099. Over the next 14 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠28.345° at the point of next standstill in ♊ Gemini on 26 December 2099 at 23:34.
Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy
The Moon is in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.
