Waning
Gibbous ♉ Taurus
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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 ♉ Taurus.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 26 October 2007 at 04:52 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 ♉ Taurus
Moon is passing about ∠7° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1973"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1930".
It is Hunter Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Hunter of October 2007.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 1 November 2007 at 21:18
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 9 November 2007 at 23:03
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 17 November 2007 at 22:32
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 24 November 2007 at 14:30
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 96 / 1049
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 96 of Meeus index or 1049 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.75 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 2 minutes. It is 35 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 18 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 45 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠159.5°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠159.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠183.8°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 11:51. It is 13 days after previous apogee on 13 October 2007 at 09:53 in ♏ Scorpio. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 14 days, until point of next apogee on 9 November 2007 at 12:31 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 356 755 km
This perigee Moon is 356 755 km (221 677 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's closest perigee of 2007. It is 5 753 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 330 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon after ascending node
4 days after ascending node on 22 October 2007 at 09:02 in ♓ Pisces. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 8 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 3 November 2007 at 22:09 in ♌ Leo.
Draconic month
4 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
9 days since the previous standstill on 16 October 2007 at 23:14 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.194°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.117° at the point of next northern standstill on 29 October 2007 at 18:09 in ♊ Gemini.
Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy
The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
