Waning
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
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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 15 days old Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 22 June 2005 at 04:14 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 ∠6° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1959"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1959" and ∠1888".
It is Strawberry Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Strawberry of June 2005.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 28 June 2005 at 18:23
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 6 July 2005 at 12:03
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 14 July 2005 at 15:20
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 21 July 2005 at 11:00
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 67 / 1020
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 67 of Meeus index or 1020 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.59 days
Length of current 67 lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 7 minutes. It is 55 minutes shorter than next lunation 68 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 23 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 40 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠131.2°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠131.2°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠158.8°. 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 before perigee
11 days after point of apogee on 11 June 2005 at 06:11 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next day, until it get to the point of next perigee on 23 June 2005 at 11:49 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 365 895 km
Moon is 365 895 km (227 357 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next day until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 359 675 km (223 492 mi).
Moon after descending node
5 days after its descending node on 17 June 2005 at 03:59 in ♎ Libra, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 7 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 29 June 2005 at 16:29 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
19 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon in southern standstill
At 07:59 on this date the Moon is meeting its South standstill point, when it will reach southern declination of ∠-28.214°. Next 13 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite northward direction to face North declination of ∠28.208° in its northern standstill point on 5 July 2005 at 13:08 in ♊ Gemini.
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.