Full
Moon* ♈ Aries
Moon phase for
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Full Moon 99% illuminated
Full Moon is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 99%. The 14 days old Moon is in ♈ Aries.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 21 October 2002 at 07:20 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 ♈ Aries
Moon is passing about ∠18° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1927".
It is Hunter Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Hunter of October 2002.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 21 October 2002 at 07:20
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 29 October 2002 at 05:28
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 4 November 2002 at 20:34
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 11 November 2002 at 20:52
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 34 / 987
The Moon is 14 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 34 of Meeus index or 987 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.39 days
Length of current 34 lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 17 minutes. It is 1 hour and 43 minutes shorter than next lunation 35 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 3 hours and 27 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 42 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠358.6°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠358.6°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠14°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon in apogee
Moon is reaching point of apogee on this date at 04:41, this is 13 days after last perigee on 6 October 2002 at 13:17 in ♎ Libra. Lunar orbit is starting to get closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth for 14 days ahead, until it will get to the point of next perigee on 4 November 2002 at 00:50 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 406 358 km
This apogee Moon is 406 358 km (252 499 mi) away from Earth. It is 950 km farther than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 351 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon before ascending node
10 days after its descending node on 10 October 2002 at 07:07 in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 4 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 24 October 2002 at 18:18 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
22 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before northern standstill
8 days after previous South standstill on 12 October 2002 at 11:51 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-25.624°. Next 6 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠25.735° in the next northern standstill on 27 October 2002 at 06:34 in ♋ Cancer.
Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy
The Moon is in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun on this date and this alignment forms Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.