Full
Moon ♑ Capricorn
Full Moon is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 100%. The 14 days old Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 15 June 2011 at 20:13 UTC.
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Moon rises at sunset and sets at sunrise. It is visible all night and it is high in the sky around midnight.
Moon is passing about ∠20° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 0.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1905" and ∠1889".
The Full Moon this days is the Strawberry of June 2011.
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.
The Moon is 14 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 141 of Meeus index or 1094 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 51 minutes. It is 2 hours and 5 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°).
The length of the current synodic month is 53 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 16 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠248.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠283.1°.
3 days after point of perigee on 12 June 2011 at 01:42 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 24 June 2011 at 04:13 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 376 194 km (233 756 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 8 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 275 km (251 205 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♐ Sagittarius at 18:35 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 14 days later on 30 June 2011 at 04:14 in ♊ Gemini.
At 18:35 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
At 08:52 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-23.399°. Over the next 14 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠23.399° at the point of next standstill in ♊ Gemini on 29 June 2011 at 17:46.
The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.