Waning
Gibbous ♋ Cancer
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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 ♊ Gemini.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 5 December 2006 at 00:25 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 ♊ Gemini
Moon is passing about ∠20° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1898"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1898" and ∠1947".
It is Cold Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Cold of December 2006.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 12 December 2006 at 14:32
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 20 December 2006 at 14:01
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 27 December 2006 at 14:48
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 3 January 2007 at 13:57
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 85 / 1038
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 85 of Meeus index or 1038 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.65 days
Length of current 85 lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 43 minutes. It is 1 hour and 43 minutes longer than next lunation 86 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 59 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 4 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠238.7°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠238.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠276.5°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon after perigee
3 days after point of perigee on 2 December 2006 at 00:06 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 8 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 13 December 2006 at 18:55 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 377 645 km
Moon is 377 645 km (234 658 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 8 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 418 km (251 294 mi).
Moon after ascending node
6 days after its ascending node on 29 November 2006 at 10:26 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 7 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 12 December 2006 at 15:19 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
6 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon before northern standstill
12 days after previous South standstill on 23 November 2006 at 07:12 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-28.442°. Next day the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠28.402° in the next northern standstill on 6 December 2006 at 03:33 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.