Full
Moon* ♈ Aries
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Full Moon 99% illuminated
Full Moon is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 99%. The 14 days old Moon is in ♓ Pisces.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 28 September 2015 at 02:50 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 ♓ Pisces
Moon is passing about ∠25° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1972"
Lunar disc appears visually 3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1915".
It is Harvest Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Harvest of September 2015.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 28 September 2015 at 02:50
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 4 October 2015 at 21:06
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 13 October 2015 at 00:06
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 20 October 2015 at 20:31
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 194 / 1147
The Moon is 14 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 194 of Meeus index or 1147 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.73 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 24 minutes. It is 17 minutes shorter 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 4 hours and 40 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 23 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠169.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠169.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠192.9°.
Moon before apogee
13 days after point of apogee on 14 September 2015 at 11:28 in ♎ Libra. 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 28 September 2015 at 01:46 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 363 475 km
The Moon is 363 475 km (225 853 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 356 877 km (221 753 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♓ Pisces at 21:04 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 13 days later on 11 October 2015 at 10:54 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
13 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
5 days since the previous standstill on 21 September 2015 at 12:02 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.134°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.140° at the point of next northern standstill on 3 October 2015 at 23:55 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.
