Full Moon
Full MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Full Moon in Sagittarius

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.

Moonrise and moonset

The moon rises at sunset and sets at sunrise. It is visible all night and it is high in the sky around midnight.

Moon phases on nearby dates

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Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♐ Sagittarius

Moon is leaving the last ∠3° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.

It is Strawberry Moon

The Full Moon these days is the Strawberry of June 2014.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1944"

Lunar disc appears visually 2.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1944" and ∠1889".

Lunation 178 / 1131

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.

Synodic month length 29.56 days

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°).

Lunation length longer than mean

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.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠112.5°

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°.

Moon before perigee

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.

Distance to Moon 368 746 km

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).

Moon after ascending node

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.

Moon at southern standstill

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.

Draconic month

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.

Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy

The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

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