Waning
Gibbous ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
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 ♒ Aquarius.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 26 July 2010 at 01:37 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 ♒ Aquarius
Moon is passing about ∠8° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1777"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1777" and ∠1889".
It is Buck Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Buck of July 2010.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 3 August 2010 at 04:59
- New Moon in Leo ♌ on 10 August 2010 at 03:08
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 16 August 2010 at 18:14
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 24 August 2010 at 17:05
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 130 / 1083
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 130 of Meeus index or 1083 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.31 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 28 minutes. It is 6 minutes longer 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 16 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 53 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠332.7°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠332.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠349.5°.
Moon before perigee
13 days after point of perigee on 13 July 2010 at 11:21 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 28 July 2010 at 23:50 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 403 345 km
The Moon is 403 345 km (250 627 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 955 km (252 249 mi).
Moon after ascending node
2 days after ascending node on 24 July 2010 at 07:59 in ♑ Capricorn. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 12 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 7 August 2010 at 17:24 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
2 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
4 days since the previous standstill on 22 July 2010 at 11:12 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-25.034°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠24.984° at the point of next northern standstill on 6 August 2010 at 02:49 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.
