Waning
Gibbous ♌ Leo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Full Moon 99% illuminated
Full Moon is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 99%. The 15 days old Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 9 January 2001 at 20:24 UTC.
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Moon phase and lunation details
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.
Moon is entering ♋ Cancer
Moon is passing first ∠0° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1972"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1951".
It is Wolf Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Wolf of January 2001.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 16 January 2001 at 12:35
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 24 January 2001 at 13:07
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 1 February 2001 at 14:02
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 8 February 2001 at 07:12
Lunar orbit position on
Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy
The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
