Full
Moon ♉ Taurus
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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 ♉ Taurus.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 6 November 2014 at 22:23 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 ♉ Taurus
Moon is passing about ∠8° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1903"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1903" and ∠1936".
It is Beaver Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Beaver of November 2014.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 14 November 2014 at 15:16
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 22 November 2014 at 12:32
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 29 November 2014 at 10:06
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 6 December 2014 at 12:27
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 183 / 1136
The Moon is 14 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 183 of Meeus index or 1136 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.61 days
Length of current 183 lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 36 minutes. It is 1 hour and 32 minutes longer than next lunation 184 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 52 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 11 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠252.3°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠252.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠289.3°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon after perigee
3 days after point of perigee on 3 November 2014 at 00:21 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 8 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 15 November 2014 at 01:56 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 376 626 km
Moon is 376 626 km (234 025 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 8 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 338 km (251 244 mi).
Moon after descending node
1 day after its descending node on 5 November 2014 at 03:13 in ♈ Aries, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 12 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 19 November 2014 at 08:18 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
14 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before northern standstill
9 days after previous South standstill on 28 October 2014 at 01:03 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-18.539°. Next 3 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠18.575° in the next northern standstill on 9 November 2014 at 23:12 in ♊ Gemini.
Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy
The Moon is in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun on this date and this alignment forms Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.