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

Full Moon in Gemini

Full Moon on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 99%. The lunar cycle is 15 days old.

* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 13 November 2046 at 17:04 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 is entering ♊ Gemini

Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.

It is Beaver Moon

The Full Moon these days is the Beaver of November 2046.

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 ∠1805"

Lunar disc appears visually 7.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1805" and ∠1940".

Lunation 579 / 1532

The Moon is 15 days old and navigating through the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 579 of Meeus index or 1532 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.44 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 33 minutes and it is 2 hours and 16 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit 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 11 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 58 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠16.7°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠16.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠35.1°.

Moon after apogee

4 days since point of apogee on 9 November 2046 at 19:38 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 25 November 2046 at 18:09 in ♎ Libra.

Distance to Moon 397 136 km

The Moon is 397 136 km (246 769 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 11 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 363 050 km (225 589 mi).

Moon before descending node

10 days after ascending node on 4 November 2046 at 08:16 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 18 November 2046 at 21:00 in ♋ Cancer.

Moon before northern standstill

12 days since the last southern standstill on 1 November 2046 at 13:02 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.165° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠26.076° at the point of next northern standstill on 16 November 2046 at 01:54 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

10 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

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