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 7 July 2009 at 09:21 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 ∠17° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1887".
It is Buck Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Buck of July 2009.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 15 July 2009 at 09:53
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 22 July 2009 at 02:35
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 28 July 2009 at 22:00
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 6 August 2009 at 00:55
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 117 / 1070
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 117 of Meeus index or 1070 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.29 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 1 minute. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2009. It is 27 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 44 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 25 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠349.4°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠349.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠4.5°.
Moon at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 21:39. It is 14 days after previous perigee on 23 June 2009 at 10:39 in ♋ Cancer. Lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the next 14 days, until point of next perigee on 21 July 2009 at 20:16 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 406 233 km
This apogee Moon is 406 233 km (252 421 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's farthest apogee of 2009. It is 825 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 476 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon before ascending node
12 days after descending node on 24 June 2009 at 17:24 in ♋ Cancer. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 8 July 2009 at 15:24 in ♑ Capricorn.
Draconic month
26 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
2 days since the previous standstill on 5 July 2009 at 07:34 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.460°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠26.477° at the point of next northern standstill on 19 July 2009 at 13:01 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.
