Full Moon on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 100%. The lunar cycle is 15 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 21 July 2005 at 11:00 UTC.
The moon rises at sunset and sets at sunrise. It is visible all night and it is high in the sky around midnight.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is leaving the last ∠1° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♒ Aquarius later.
The Full Moon these days is the Buck of July 2005.
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.
Lunar disc appears visually 4.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1888".
The Moon is 15 days old and navigating through the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 68 of Meeus index or 1021 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 2 minutes and it is 39 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 18 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 45 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠158.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠181.9°.
Moon is at perigee at 19:44 about 13 days since last apogee on 8 July 2005 at 17:39 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 14 days until point of next apogee on 4 August 2005 at 21:49 in ♌ Leo.
This perigee Moon is 357 160 km (221 929 mi) away from Earth. It is 5 348 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 13 196 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
7 days after descending node on 14 July 2005 at 06:35 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 26 July 2005 at 17:58 in ♈ Aries.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 19 July 2005 at 17:52 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.265° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.311° at the point of next northern standstill on 1 August 2005 at 18:06 in ♊ Gemini.
21 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com
Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov