Waning
Gibbous ♉ Taurus
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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 ♉ Taurus.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 18 October 2013 at 23:38 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 is entering ♉ Taurus
Moon is passing first ∠2° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1839"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1839" and ∠1927".
It is Hunter Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Hunter of October 2013.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 26 October 2013 at 23:41
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 3 November 2013 at 12:50
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 10 November 2013 at 05:57
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 17 November 2013 at 15:16
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 170 / 1123
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 170 of Meeus index or 1123 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.51 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 15 minutes. It is 43 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 29 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 40 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠285.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠285.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠315°.
Moon before perigee
8 days after point of perigee on 10 October 2013 at 23:06 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 25 October 2013 at 14:25 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 389 842 km
The Moon is 389 842 km (242 237 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 6 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 561 km (251 383 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♉ Taurus at 21:47 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 14 days later on 3 November 2013 at 06:52 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
12 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
9 days since the previous standstill on 9 October 2013 at 23:52 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.537°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.509° at the point of next northern standstill on 23 October 2013 at 09:13 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.
