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

Full Moon in Leo

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 29 January 2086 at 17:49 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 ♌ Leo

Moon is passing about ∠19° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.

It is Wolf Moon

The Full Moon these days is the Wolf of January 2086.

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 ∠1778"

Lunar disc appears visually 9.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1778" and ∠1947".

Lunation 1064 / 2017

The Moon is 15 days old and navigating through the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1064 of Meeus index or 2017 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.46 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 3 minutes and it is 1 hour and 26 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 1 hour and 41 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 28 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠329.2°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠329.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠347°.

Moon before apogee

13 days since point of perigee on 17 January 2086 at 08:10 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 2 February 2086 at 04:51 in ♍ Virgo.

Distance to Moon 403 028 km

The Moon is 403 028 km (250 430 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 946 km (252 243 mi).

Moon after descending node

4 days after descending node on 25 January 2086 at 20:34 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 9 February 2086 at 10:38 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Moon after northern standstill

4 days since the last northern standstill on 25 January 2086 at 13:48 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠23.242° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠-23.132° at the point of next southern standstill on 9 February 2086 at 06:38 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

17 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius 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