Waning
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
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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 ♑ Capricorn.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 28 June 2018 at 04:53 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 ♑ Capricorn
Moon is passing about ∠10° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1771"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1771" and ∠1887".
It is Strawberry Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Strawberry of June 2018.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 6 July 2018 at 07:51
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 13 July 2018 at 02:48
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 19 July 2018 at 19:52
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 27 July 2018 at 20:20
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 228 / 1181
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 228 of Meeus index or 1181 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.3 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 5 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2018. It is 5 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 39 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 30 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠340.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠340.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠356°.
Moon before perigee
13 days after point of perigee on 14 June 2018 at 23:55 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 30 June 2018 at 02:43 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 404 622 km
The Moon is 404 622 km (251 420 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 061 km (252 315 mi).
Moon before descending node
11 days after ascending node on 16 June 2018 at 17:50 in ♋ Cancer. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 2 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 30 June 2018 at 16:44 in ♒ Aquarius.
Draconic month
11 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon at southern standstill
At 14:30 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-20.775°. Over the next 14 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠20.761° at the point of next standstill in ♋ Cancer on 12 July 2018 at 12:01.
Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy
The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
