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Moon phase on 12 December 2019 Thursday is Full Moon, 15 days old Moon is in Gemini.

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Lunar calendar 2019 | December 2019

Full Moon phase
Full Moon phase
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 ♊ Gemini.

* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 12 December 2019 at 05:12 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 ∠24° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1868"

Lunar disc appears visually 4.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1868" and ∠1949".

It is Cold Moon

The Full Moon this days is the Cold of December 2019.

Upcoming main Moon phases

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 246 / 1199

The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 246 of Meeus index or 1199 from Brown series.

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Synodic month length 29.59 days

The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 8 minutes. It is 2 hours and 21 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).

Lunation length longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 23 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 39 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit position on

True anomaly ∠50.7°

At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠50.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠82.6°.

Moon before apogee

7 days after point of apogee on 5 December 2019 at 04:09 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 18 December 2019 at 20:30 in ♍ Virgo.

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Distance to Moon 383 753 km

The Moon is 383 753 km (238 453 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 370 260 km (230 069 mi).

Moon before ascending node

13 days after descending node on 29 November 2019 at 04:13 in ♑ Capricorn. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 13 December 2019 at 14:15 in ♋ Cancer.

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Draconic month

26 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.

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Moon before northern standstill

13 days since the previous standstill on 29 November 2019 at 10:36 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-23.200°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠23.226° at the point of next northern standstill on 13 December 2019 at 20:57 in ♋ Cancer.

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Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy

The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.

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