Waning
Gibbous ♋ 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 15 days old Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 30 December 2020 at 03:28 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 ∠13° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1828"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1828" and ∠1951".
It is Cold Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Cold of December 2020.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 6 January 2021 at 09:37
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 13 January 2021 at 05:00
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 20 January 2021 at 21:02
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 28 January 2021 at 19:16
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 259 / 1212
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 259 of Meeus index or 1212 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.53 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 44 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 same as the mean
The length of the current synodic month is equal to the mean synodic month length. It is %hours_to_shortest% and %minutes_to_shortest% longer than the 21st century's shortest and %hours_to_longest% and %minutes_to_longest% shorter than the 21st century's longest synodic months.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠30.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠30.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠53.8°.
Moon after apogee
5 days after point of apogee on 24 December 2020 at 16:32 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 9 January 2021 at 15:39 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 392 181 km
The Moon is 392 181 km (243 690 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 367 390 km (228 286 mi).
Moon after ascending node
1 day after ascending node on 28 December 2020 at 15:03 in ♊ Gemini. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 10 January 2021 at 20:15 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
1 day since the beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon at northern standstill
At 07:53 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠24.868°. Over the next 12 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-24.870° at the point of next standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 12 January 2021 at 08:18.
Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy
The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
