Full
Moon ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
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 14 days old Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 10 January 2020 at 19:21 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 ♋ Cancer
Moon is passing about ∠16° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1901"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1901" and ∠1951".
It is Wolf Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Wolf of January 2020.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 17 January 2020 at 12:58
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 24 January 2020 at 21:42
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 2 February 2020 at 01:42
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 9 February 2020 at 07:33
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 247 / 1200
The Moon is 14 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 247 of Meeus index or 1200 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.69 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 29 minutes. It is 1 hour 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 3 hours and 45 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 18 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠82.6°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠82.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠120.5°.
Moon before apogee
8 days after point of apogee on 2 January 2020 at 01:30 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 13 January 2020 at 20:20 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 376 961 km
The Moon is 376 961 km (234 233 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 365 964 km (227 399 mi).
Moon after ascending node
1 day after ascending node on 9 January 2020 at 23:29 in ♋ Cancer. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 12 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 22 January 2020 at 20:31 in ♑ Capricorn.
Draconic month
1 day 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 northern standstill
At 06:03 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠23.223°. This is the year's northernmost lunar standstill of 2020. Over the next 12 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-23.225° at the point of next standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 23 January 2020 at 03:37.
Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy
The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
