Full
Moon ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Full Moon 100% illuminated
Full Moon is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 100%. The 14 days old Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 5 July 2001 at 15:04 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 in ♑ Capricorn
Moon is passing about ∠12° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1794"
Lunar disc appears visually 5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1794" and ∠1887".
It is Buck Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Buck of July 2001.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 13 July 2001 at 18:45
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 20 July 2001 at 19:44
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 27 July 2001 at 10:08
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 4 August 2001 at 05:56
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.
Lunation 18 / 971
The Moon is 14 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 18 of Meeus index or 971 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.32 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 47 minutes. It is 36 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the 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 4 hours and 57 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 12 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠324.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠324.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠342.5°.
Moon before perigee
11 days after point of perigee on 23 June 2001 at 17:14 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 9 July 2001 at 11:24 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 399 443 km
The Moon is 399 443 km (248 202 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 565 km (252 006 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♑ Capricorn at 00:48 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 13 days later on 19 July 2001 at 08:24 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
13 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the cycle.
Moon at southern standstill
At 12:19 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-23.413°. Over the next 14 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠23.418° at the point of next standstill in ♋ Cancer on 19 July 2001 at 17:53.
Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy
The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
