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

Full Moon in Cancer

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 9 January 2096 at 19:20 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 ♋ Cancer

Moon is passing about ∠15° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.

It is Wolf Moon

The Full Moon these days is the Wolf of January 2096.

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 ∠1897"

Lunar disc appears visually 2.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1897" and ∠1951".

Lunation 1187 / 2140

The Moon is 14 days old and navigating through the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1187 of Meeus index or 2140 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.64 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 20 minutes and it is 2 hours and 36 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 longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 36 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 27 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠255°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠255° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠291.7°.

Moon after perigee

3 days since point of perigee on 5 January 2096 at 18:18 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 17 January 2096 at 20:30 in ♎ Libra.

Distance to Moon 377 844 km

The Moon is 377 844 km (234 781 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 8 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 322 km (251 234 mi).

Moon after ascending node

2 days after ascending node on 6 January 2096 at 23:04 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 21 January 2096 at 00:01 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Moon at northern standstill

At 02:58 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠25.638°. This is the year's northernmost lunar standstill of 2096. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-25.665° at the point of next southern standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 23 January 2096 at 11:33.

Draconic month

2 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini 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