Waning
Gibbous ♌ Leo
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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 ♌ Leo.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 19 January 2011 at 21:21 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 ♌ Leo
Moon is passing about ∠8° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1943"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1943" and ∠1950".
It is Wolf Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Wolf of January 2011.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 26 January 2011 at 12:57
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 3 February 2011 at 02:31
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 11 February 2011 at 07:18
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 18 February 2011 at 08:36
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 136 / 1089
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 136 of Meeus index or 1089 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.73 days
Length of current 136 lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 28 minutes. It is 47 minutes shorter than next lunation 137 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 44 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 19 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠103.5°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠103.5°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠139.2°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon before perigee
10 days after point of apogee on 10 January 2011 at 05:38 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next day, until it get to the point of next perigee on 22 January 2011 at 00:10 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 368 867 km
Moon is 368 867 km (229 203 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next day until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 362 793 km (225 429 mi).
Moon after descending node
2 days after its descending node on 18 January 2011 at 00:06 in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 10 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 30 January 2011 at 18:29 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
16 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
3 days after previous North standstill on 16 January 2011 at 22:51 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠24.221°. Next 9 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-24.180° in the next southern standstill on 29 January 2011 at 16:26 in ♐ Sagittarius.
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.