Waning
Gibbous ♊ Gemini
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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 14 days old Moon is in ♉ Taurus.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 14 November 2016 at 13:52 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 ∠21° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1973"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1940".
It is Beaver Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Beaver of November 2016.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 21 November 2016 at 08:33
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 29 November 2016 at 12:18
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 7 December 2016 at 09:03
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 14 December 2016 at 00:06
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 208 / 1161
The Moon is 14 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 208 of Meeus index or 1161 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.78 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 40 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2016. It is 5 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 5 hours and 56 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 7 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠170.6°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠170.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠194.9°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 11:23. It is 13 days after previous apogee on 31 October 2016 at 19:29 in ♏ Scorpio. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 13 days, until point of next apogee on 27 November 2016 at 20:08 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 356 512 km
This perigee Moon is 356 512 km (221 526 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's closest perigee of 2016. It is 5 996 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 87 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon after descending node
4 days after descending node on 9 November 2016 at 15:57 in ♓ Pisces. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 7 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 22 November 2016 at 02:48 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
19 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
9 days since the previous standstill on 4 November 2016 at 13:04 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.737°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.814° at the point of next northern standstill on 17 November 2016 at 09:32 in ♋ Cancer.
Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy
The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
