Full
Moon ♊ Gemini
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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 ♊ Gemini.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 30 November 2001 at 20:49 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 ♊ Gemini
Moon is passing first ∠4° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1857"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1857" and ∠1946".
It is Beaver Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Beaver of November 2001.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 7 December 2001 at 19:52
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 14 December 2001 at 20:48
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 22 December 2001 at 20:56
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 30 December 2001 at 10:41
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 23 / 976
The Moon is 14 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 23 of Meeus index or 976 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.59 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 7 minutes. It is 2 hours and 34 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 23 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 40 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠53.5°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠53.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠86.2°.
Moon before apogee
6 days after point of apogee on 23 November 2001 at 15:46 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 6 December 2001 at 22:48 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 385 943 km
The Moon is 385 943 km (239 814 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 370 114 km (229 978 mi).
Moon before ascending node
12 days after descending node on 17 November 2001 at 19:51 in ♐ Sagittarius. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 2 December 2001 at 05:30 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
25 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
11 days since the previous standstill on 18 November 2001 at 22:30 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-24.211°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠24.246° at the point of next northern standstill on 3 December 2001 at 06:54 in ♋ Cancer.
Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy
The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
