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 15 days old.

* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 18 June 2084 at 10:00 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 leaving the last ∠1° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.

It is Strawberry Moon

The Full Moon these days is the Strawberry of June 2084.

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 ∠1971"

Lunar disc appears visually 4.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1971" and ∠1888".

Lunation 1044 / 1997

The Moon is 15 days old and navigating through the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1044 of Meeus index or 1997 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.64 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 25 minutes and it is 1 minute shorter 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 longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 41 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 22 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠157°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠157° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠180.4°.

Moon at perigee

Moon is at perigee at 20:15 about 13 days since last apogee on 5 June 2084 at 20:10 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 14 days until point of next apogee on 3 July 2084 at 00:38 in ♋ Cancer.

Distance to Moon 357 416 km

This perigee Moon is 357 416 km (222 088 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's closest perigee of 2084. It is 5 092 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 991 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.

Moon before ascending node

11 days after descending node on 6 June 2084 at 12:27 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 19 June 2084 at 20:57 in ♑ Capricorn.

Moon after southern standstill

1 day since the last southern standstill on 17 June 2084 at 21:43 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-25.635° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠25.643° at the point of next northern standstill on 1 July 2084 at 04:53 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

25 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the second to the final 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