Full
Moon ♊ Gemini
Moon phase for
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 14 days old Moon is in ♉ Taurus.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 25 November 2015 at 22:44 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 leaving the last ∠3° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♊ Gemini later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1941"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1941" and ∠1944".
It is Beaver Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Beaver of November 2015.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 3 December 2015 at 07:40
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 11 December 2015 at 10:29
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 18 December 2015 at 15:14
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 25 December 2015 at 11:11
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 196 / 1149
The Moon is 14 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 196 of Meeus index or 1149 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.7 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 42 minutes. It is 1 hour and 41 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 58 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 5 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠220.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠220.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠255.6°.
Moon after perigee
1 day after point of perigee on 23 November 2015 at 20:06 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 5 December 2015 at 14:56 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 369 374 km
The Moon is 369 374 km (229 518 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 800 km (251 531 mi).
Moon after descending node
3 days after descending node on 21 November 2015 at 13:56 in ♓ Pisces. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 9 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 4 December 2015 at 18:33 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
17 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
10 days since the previous standstill on 15 November 2015 at 00:39 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.331°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.384° at the point of next northern standstill on 27 November 2015 at 20:13 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.
