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 ♑ Capricorn.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 24 June 2021 at 18:40 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 ♑ Capricorn
Moon is passing about ∠14° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1941"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1941" and ∠1888".
It is Strawberry Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Strawberry of June 2021.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 1 July 2021 at 21:11
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 10 July 2021 at 01:17
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 17 July 2021 at 10:11
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 24 July 2021 at 02:37
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 265 / 1218
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 265 of Meeus index or 1218 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.6 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 24 minutes. It is 1 hour and 50 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 1 hour and 40 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 23 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠202.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠202.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠230.1°.
Moon after perigee
2 days after point of perigee on 23 June 2021 at 09:58 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 5 July 2021 at 14:48 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 369 257 km
The Moon is 369 257 km (229 446 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 342 km (251 868 mi).
Moon after descending node
2 days after descending node on 23 June 2021 at 06:07 in ♐ Sagittarius. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 11 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 6 July 2021 at 22:41 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
15 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon at southern standstill
At 05:49 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-25.631°. Over the next 13 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠25.622° at the point of next standstill in ♋ Cancer on 9 July 2021 at 10:05.
Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy
The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
