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 ♐ Sagittarius.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 17 June 2019 at 08:31 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 ♐ Sagittarius
Moon is leaving the last ∠2° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1831"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1831" and ∠1889".
It is Strawberry Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Strawberry of June 2019.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 25 June 2019 at 09:46
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 2 July 2019 at 19:16
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 9 July 2019 at 10:55
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 16 July 2019 at 21:38
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 240 / 1193
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 240 of Meeus index or 1193 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.38 days
Length of current 240 lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 14 minutes. It is 1 hour and 18 minutes longer than next lunation 241 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 3 hours and 30 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 39 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠296.1°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠296.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠321.4°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon before apogee
9 days after point of perigee on 7 June 2019 at 23:21 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 5 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 23 June 2019 at 07:50 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 391 489 km
Moon is 391 489 km (243 260 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 5 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 549 km (251 375 mi).
Moon before descending node
11 days after its ascending node on 5 June 2019 at 22:46 in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next day, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 19 June 2019 at 01:49 in ♑ Capricorn.
Draconic month
11 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
11 days after previous North standstill on 5 June 2019 at 12:58 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠22.361°. Next day the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-22.381° in the next southern standstill on 18 June 2019 at 15:33 in ♑ Capricorn.
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.