Full Moon on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 100%. The lunar cycle is 15 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 13 June 2014 at 04:11 UTC.
The moon rises at sunset and sets at sunrise. It is visible all night and it is high in the sky around midnight.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is leaving the last ∠3° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.
The Full Moon these days is the Strawberry of June 2014.
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.
Lunar disc appears visually 2.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1944" and ∠1889".
The Moon is 15 days old and navigating through the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 178 of Meeus index or 1131 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 28 minutes and it is 1 hour and 5 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
The length of the current synodic month is 44 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 19 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠112.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠144.1°.
10 days since point of apogee on 3 June 2014 at 04:25 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 15 June 2014 at 03:34 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 368 746 km (229 128 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 362 062 km (224 975 mi).
4 days after ascending node on 9 June 2014 at 05:36 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 8 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 21 June 2014 at 20:30 in ♈ Aries.
At 06:03 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-19.033°. Over the upcoming 12 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠19.035° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 26 June 2014 at 08:34.
4 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com
Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov