Full
Moon ♒ 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 14 days old Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 22 July 2013 at 18:15 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 ♑ Capricorn
Moon is leaving the last ∠4° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♒ Aquarius later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1966"
Lunar disc appears visually 4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1966" and ∠1889".
It is Buck Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Buck of July 2013.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 29 July 2013 at 17:43
- New Moon in Leo ♌ on 6 August 2013 at 21:51
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 14 August 2013 at 10:56
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 21 August 2013 at 01:45
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 167 / 1120
The Moon is 14 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 167 of Meeus index or 1120 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.61 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 36 minutes. It is 51 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 1 hour and 52 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 11 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠191.6°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠191.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠216.9°.
Moon after perigee
1 day after point of perigee on 21 July 2013 at 20:27 in ♑ Capricorn. 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 3 August 2013 at 08:53 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 364 599 km
The Moon is 364 599 km (226 551 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 834 km (252 174 mi).
Moon after ascending node
4 days after ascending node on 17 July 2013 at 14:58 in ♏ Scorpio. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 7 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 30 July 2013 at 05:50 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
4 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
2 days since the previous standstill on 20 July 2013 at 03:12 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-20.097°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠20.025° at the point of next northern standstill on 2 August 2013 at 09:24 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.
