Waning
Gibbous ♉ Taurus
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Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Full Moon 99% illuminated
Full Moon is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 99%. The 15 days old Moon is in ♉ Taurus.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 14 October 2008 at 20:03 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 is entering ♉ Taurus
Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1938"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1938" and ∠1925".
It is Hunter Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Hunter of October 2008.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 21 October 2008 at 11:55
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 28 October 2008 at 23:14
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 6 November 2008 at 04:04
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 13 November 2008 at 06:17
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 108 / 1061
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 108 of Meeus index or 1061 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.63 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 2 minutes. It is 2 hours and 39 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length longer than mean
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.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠98.7°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠98.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠133.4°.
Moon before apogee
10 days after point of apogee on 5 October 2008 at 10:34 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 17 October 2008 at 06:06 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 369 942 km
The Moon is 369 942 km (229 871 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 363 828 km (226 072 mi).
Moon after ascending node
5 days after ascending node on 10 October 2008 at 00:38 in ♒ Aquarius. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 7 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 22 October 2008 at 18:00 in ♌ Leo.
Draconic month
5 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♒ Aquarius, 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 5 October 2008 at 14:05 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.370°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.270° at the point of next northern standstill on 19 October 2008 at 00:21 in ♋ Cancer.
Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy
The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
