Full
Moon* ♓ Pisces
Moon phase for
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 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
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 2 minutes. It is 13 minutes shorter 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 3 hours and 18 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 45 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠179.2°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠179.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠202.9°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 15:51. It is 14 days after previous apogee on 16 August 2023 at 11:55 in ♌ Leo. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 13 days, until 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 further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon before ascending node
8 days after descending node on 21 August 2023 at 16:23 in ♎ Libra. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 3 September 2023 at 07:44 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
23 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
3 days since the previous standstill on 26 August 2023 at 20:22 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.095°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.168° at the point of next northern standstill on 8 September 2023 at 13:18 in ♊ Gemini.
Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy
The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
