Full
Moon* ♓ Pisces
Moon phase for
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Full Moon 99% illuminated
Full Moon is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 99%. The 14 days old Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 31 August 2023 at 01:35 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 ♒ Aquarius
Moon is leaving the last ∠1° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♓ Pisces later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1973"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1901".
It is Sturgeon Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Sturgeon of August 2023.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 31 August 2023 at 01:35
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 6 September 2023 at 22:21
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 15 September 2023 at 01:40
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 22 September 2023 at 19:32
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 292 / 1245
The Moon is 14 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 292 of Meeus index or 1245 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.67 days
Length of current 292 lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 2 minutes. It is 13 minutes shorter than next lunation 293 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 3 hours and 18 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours and 45 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠179.2°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠179.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠202.9°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon in perigee
Moon is reaching point of perigee on this date at 15:51, this is 14 days after last apogee on 16 August 2023 at 11:55 in ♌ Leo. Lunar orbit is starting to get wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth for 13 days ahead, until it will get to the point of next apogee on 12 September 2023 at 15:42 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 357 182 km
This perigee Moon is 357 182 km (221 943 mi) away from Earth. It is 5 326 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 13 174 km farther than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon before ascending node
8 days after its descending node on 21 August 2023 at 16:23 in ♎ Libra, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 3 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 3 September 2023 at 07:44 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
23 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
3 days after previous South standstill on 26 August 2023 at 20:22 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-28.095°. Next 9 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠28.168° in the next northern standstill on 8 September 2023 at 13:18 in ♊ Gemini.
Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy
The Moon is in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun on this date and this alignment forms Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.