Waning
Gibbous ♊ Gemini
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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 ♊ Gemini.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 3 December 2017 at 15:47 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 ♊ Gemini
Moon is passing about ∠9° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1965"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1965" and ∠1947".
It is Cold Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Cold of December 2017.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 10 December 2017 at 07:51
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 18 December 2017 at 06:31
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 26 December 2017 at 09:20
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 2 January 2018 at 02:24
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 221 / 1174
The Moon is 14 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 221 of Meeus index or 1174 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.78 days
Length of current 221 lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 48 minutes. It is 59 minutes shorter than next lunation 222 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 6 hours and 4 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 59 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠147°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠147°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠173.3°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon before perigee
11 days after point of apogee on 21 November 2017 at 18:52 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next day, until it get to the point of next perigee on 4 December 2017 at 08:42 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 364 821 km
Moon is 364 821 km (226 689 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next day until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 357 496 km (222 138 mi).
Moon before ascending node
8 days after its descending node on 25 November 2017 at 08:22 in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 4 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 8 December 2017 at 00:39 in ♌ Leo.
Draconic month
22 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♌ Leo, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before northern standstill
11 days after previous South standstill on 22 November 2017 at 02:06 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-19.959°. Next day the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠20.015° in the next northern standstill on 5 December 2017 at 11:43 in ♋ Cancer.
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.