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

Full Moon in Aquarius

Full Moon on . Illuminated surface of the Moon is 100%. Lunar cycle is 14 days old.

* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 5 August 2047 at 20:38 UTC.

Moonrise and moonset

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

Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♒ Aquarius

Moon is passing about ∠9° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.

It is Sturgeon Moon

The Full Moon these days is the Sturgeon of August 2047.

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 ∠1872"

Lunar disc appears visually 1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1872" and ∠1892".

Lunation 588 / 1541

The Moon is 14 days old and navigating through the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 588 of Meeus index or 1541 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.44 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 27 minutes and it is 1 hour and 12 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 2 hours and 17 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 52 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠274.9°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠274.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠306.1°.

Moon after perigee

6 days since point of perigee on 30 July 2047 at 09:01 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 7 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 12 August 2047 at 22:38 in ♉ Taurus.

Distance to Moon 382 879 km

The Moon is 382 879 km (237 910 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 7 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 274 km (251 204 mi).

Moon after ascending node

1 day after ascending node on 3 August 2047 at 19:59 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 18 August 2047 at 04:37 in ♋ Cancer.

Moon after southern standstill

3 days since the last southern standstill on 1 August 2047 at 22:27 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-25.317° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠25.256° at the point of next northern standstill on 16 August 2047 at 02:57 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

1 day 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