Waning
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
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Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Full Moon 99% illuminated
Full Moon is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 99%. The 15 days old Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 5 June 2020 at 19:12 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 ♐ Sagittarius
Moon is passing about ∠25° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1905"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1905" and ∠1891".
It is Strawberry Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Strawberry of June 2020.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 13 June 2020 at 06:24
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 21 June 2020 at 06:41
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 28 June 2020 at 08:16
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 5 July 2020 at 04:44
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 252 / 1205
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 252 of Meeus index or 1205 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.54 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 3 minutes. It is 2 hours and 11 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 19 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 44 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠229.8°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠229.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠263.8°.
Moon after perigee
3 days after point of perigee on 3 June 2020 at 03:36 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 15 June 2020 at 00:56 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 376 275 km
The Moon is 376 275 km (233 806 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 8 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 597 km (251 405 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♐ Sagittarius at 18:10 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 14 days later on 21 June 2020 at 04:24 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
12 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
11 days since the previous standstill on 25 May 2020 at 21:16 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠24.055°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-24.069° at the point of next southern standstill on 7 June 2020 at 16:22 in ♑ Capricorn.
Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy
The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
