Full Moon on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 100%. The lunar cycle is 14 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 27 July 2018 at 20:20 UTC.
The moon rises at sunset and sets at sunrise. It is visible all night and it is high in the sky around midnight.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
The Full Moon these days is the Buck of July 2018.
There is extremely high Full Moon ocean tide on this date. Combined Sun and Moon gravitational tidal force working on Earth is heavy, because of the Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment and the near perigee.
Lunar disc appears visually 6.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1890".
The Moon is 14 days old and navigating through the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 229 of Meeus index or 1182 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 10 minutes and it is 54 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 34 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 35 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠356° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠11.2°.
Moon is at apogee at 05:44 about 13 days since last perigee on 13 July 2018 at 08:28 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 14 days until point of next perigee on 10 August 2018 at 18:05 in ♌ Leo.
This apogee Moon is 406 223 km (252 415 mi) away from Earth. It is 815 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 486 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon is in descending node in ♑ Capricorn at 22:40 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 10 August 2018 at 13:40 in ♋ Cancer.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 25 July 2018 at 20:55 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-20.755° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠20.757° at the point of next northern standstill on 8 August 2018 at 22:33 in ♋ Cancer.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the lunar cycle.
The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com
Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov