Waning
Gibbous ♐ Sagittarius
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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 ♐ Sagittarius.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 4 June 2012 at 11:12 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 ♐ Sagittarius
Moon is passing about ∠15° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1963"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1963" and ∠1891".
It is Strawberry Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Strawberry of June 2012.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 11 June 2012 at 10:41
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 19 June 2012 at 15:02
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 27 June 2012 at 03:30
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 3 July 2012 at 18:52
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 153 / 1106
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 153 of Meeus index or 1106 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.64 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 15 minutes. It is 1 hour and 53 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 31 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 32 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠191.8°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠191.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠217.1°.
Moon after perigee
1 day after point of perigee on 3 June 2012 at 13:19 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 11 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 16 June 2012 at 01:24 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 365 150 km
The Moon is 365 150 km (226 894 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 791 km (252 147 mi).
Moon after ascending node
1 day after ascending node on 3 June 2012 at 20:38 in ♏ Scorpio. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 13 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 17 June 2012 at 15:43 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
1 day since the beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon at southern standstill
At 17:05 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-21.714°. Over the next 14 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠21.721° at the point of next standstill in ♊ Gemini on 18 June 2012 at 17:37.
Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy
The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
