Full
Moon ♊ Gemini
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 14 days old Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 28 November 2012 at 14:46 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 ♊ Gemini
Moon is passing about ∠5° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 9.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1945".
It is Beaver Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Beaver of November 2012.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 6 December 2012 at 15:32
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 13 December 2012 at 08:42
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 20 December 2012 at 05:19
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 28 December 2012 at 10:21
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 159 / 1112
The Moon is 14 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 159 of Meeus index or 1112 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.44 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 34 minutes. It is 28 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 2 hours and 10 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 59 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠351.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠351.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠6.8°.
Moon at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 19:35. It is 14 days after previous perigee on 14 November 2012 at 10:21 in ♏ Scorpio. 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 12 December 2012 at 23:14 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 406 366 km
This apogee Moon is 406 366 km (252 504 mi) away from Earth. It is 958 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 343 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon after descending node
1 day after descending node on 27 November 2012 at 17:05 in ♉ Taurus. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 13 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 11 December 2012 at 15:57 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
14 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
12 days since the previous standstill on 15 November 2012 at 16:10 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-20.914°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠20.924° at the point of next northern standstill on 29 November 2012 at 14:33 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.
