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

Full Moon in Capricorn

Full Moon on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 100%. The lunar cycle is 14 days old.

* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 8 July 2093 at 17:14 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 ♑ Capricorn

Moon is passing about ∠14° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.

It is Buck Moon

The Full Moon these days is the Buck of July 2093.

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 ∠1973"

Lunar disc appears visually 4.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1887".

Lunation 1156 / 2109

The Moon is 14 days old and navigating through the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1156 of Meeus index or 2109 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.65 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 31 minutes and it is 13 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2093. 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 47 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 16 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠167.5°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠167.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠190.3°.

Moon at perigee

Moon is at perigee at 18:17 about 13 days since last apogee on 25 June 2093 at 06:06 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 13 days until point of next apogee on 22 July 2093 at 09:07 in ♋ Cancer.

Distance to Moon 357 096 km

This perigee Moon is 357 096 km (221 889 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's closest perigee of 2093. It is 5 412 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 671 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.

Moon before descending node

12 days after ascending node on 25 June 2093 at 19:10 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 9 July 2093 at 06:40 in ♑ Capricorn.

Moon at southern standstill

At 09:04 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-21.641°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠21.635° at the point of next northern standstill in ♋ Cancer on 21 July 2093 at 21:21.

Draconic month

12 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer 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