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

Full Moon in Sagittarius

Full Moon on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 100%. The lunar cycle is 14 days old.

* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 15 June 2011 at 20:13 UTC.

Moonrise and moonset

The moon rises at sunset and sets at sunrise. It is visible all night and it is high in the sky around midnight.

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 in ♐ Sagittarius

Moon is passing about ∠20° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.

It is Strawberry Moon

The Full Moon these days is the Strawberry of June 2011.

Spring tide

There is high Full Moon ocean tide on this date. Combined Sun and Moon gravitational tidal force working on Earth is strong, because of the Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1905"

Lunar disc appears visually 0.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1905" and ∠1889".

Lunation 141 / 1094

The Moon is 14 days old and navigating through the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 141 of Meeus index or 1094 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.49 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 51 minutes and it is 2 hours and 5 minutes longer than the upcoming 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 shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 53 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 16 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠248.4°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠248.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠283.1°.

Moon after perigee

3 days since point of perigee on 12 June 2011 at 01:42 in ♏ Scorpio 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 24 June 2011 at 04:13 in ♈ Aries.

Distance to Moon 376 194 km

The Moon is 376 194 km (233 756 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 8 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 275 km (251 205 mi).

Moon in ascending node

Moon is in ascending node in ♐ Sagittarius at 18:35 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next descending node later on 30 June 2011 at 04:14 in ♊ Gemini.

Moon at southern standstill

At 08:52 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-23.399°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠23.399° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 29 June 2011 at 17:46.

New draconic month

At 18:35 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.

Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy

The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon 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