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

Full Moon in Pisces

Full Moon on . Illuminated surface of the Moon is 100%. Lunar cycle is 15 days old.

* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 18 September 2081 at 03:45 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 is entering ♓ Pisces

Moon is passing first ∠0° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.

It is Harvest Moon

The Full Moon these days is the Harvest of September 2081.

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 ∠1770"

Lunar disc appears visually 7.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1770" and ∠1910".

Lunation 1010 / 1963

The Moon is 15 days old and navigating through the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1010 of Meeus index or 1963 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.35 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 22 minutes and it is 1 hour and 19 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 4 hours and 22 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 47 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠357.1°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠357.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠12.5°.

Moon after apogee

1 day since point of apogee on 17 September 2081 at 08:20 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 13 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 1 October 2081 at 23:44 in ♍ Virgo.

Distance to Moon 405 000 km

The Moon is 405 000 km (251 655 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 13 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 089 km (222 506 mi).

Moon after ascending node

1 day after ascending node on 17 September 2081 at 06:18 in ♓ Pisces 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 1 October 2081 at 01:46 in ♍ Virgo.

Moon before northern standstill

7 days since the last southern standstill on 10 September 2081 at 20:08 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.547° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.512° at the point of next northern standstill on 25 September 2081 at 14:31 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces 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