Waning
Gibbous ♋ Cancer
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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 15 days old Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 25 December 2015 at 11:11 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 is entering ♋ Cancer
Moon is passing first ∠4° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1888"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1888" and ∠1951".
It is Cold Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Cold of December 2015.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 2 January 2016 at 05:30
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 10 January 2016 at 01:30
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 16 January 2016 at 23:26
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 24 January 2016 at 01:46
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 197 / 1150
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 197 of Meeus index or 1150 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.63 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 1 minute. It is 1 hour and 53 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 2 hours and 17 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 46 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠255.6°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠255.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠292.2°.
Moon after perigee
4 days after point of perigee on 21 December 2015 at 08:53 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 2 January 2016 at 11:53 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 379 691 km
The Moon is 379 691 km (235 929 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 7 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 279 km (251 207 mi).
Moon before ascending node
6 days after descending node on 18 December 2015 at 15:13 in ♓ Pisces. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 6 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 31 December 2015 at 20:19 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
20 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 at northern standstill
At 07:30 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠18.444°. Over the next 14 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-18.420° at the point of next standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 8 January 2016 at 17:56.
Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy
The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
