Waning
Gibbous ♈ Aries
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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 ♈ Aries.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 25 September 2018 at 02:53 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 ♈ Aries
Moon is passing about ∠7° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1821"
Lunar disc appears visually 5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1821" and ∠1914".
It is Harvest Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Harvest of September 2018.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 2 October 2018 at 09:45
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 9 October 2018 at 03:47
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 16 October 2018 at 18:02
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 24 October 2018 at 16:45
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 231 / 1184
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 231 of Meeus index or 1184 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.41 days
Length of current 231 lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 45 minutes. It is 2 hours and 30 minutes shorter than next lunation 232 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 59 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours and 10 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠28°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠28°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠49.6°. 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 after apogee
5 days after point of apogee on 20 September 2018 at 00:54 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 10 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 5 October 2018 at 22:29 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 393 606 km
Moon is 393 606 km (244 575 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 10 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 366 396 km (227 668 mi).
Moon after descending node
5 days after its descending node on 20 September 2018 at 09:30 in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 8 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 4 October 2018 at 03:10 in ♌ Leo.
Draconic month
18 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before northern standstill
7 days after previous South standstill on 18 September 2018 at 09:35 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-20.909°. Next 7 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠21.037° in the next northern standstill on 2 October 2018 at 13:03 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.