Waning
Gibbous ♈ Aries
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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 ♈ Aries.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 29 September 2023 at 09:57 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 ♈ Aries
Moon is passing about ∠7° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1951"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1951" and ∠1916".
It is Harvest Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Harvest of September 2023.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 6 October 2023 at 13:48
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 14 October 2023 at 17:55
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 22 October 2023 at 03:29
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 28 October 2023 at 20:24
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 293 / 1246
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 293 of Meeus index or 1246 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.68 days
Length of current 293 lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 15 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2023. It is 43 minutes longer than next lunation 294 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 3 hours and 31 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours and 32 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠202.9°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠202.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠232.5°. 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 after perigee
1 day after point of perigee on 28 September 2023 at 01:05 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 10 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 10 October 2023 at 03:41 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 367 325 km
Moon is 367 325 km (228 245 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 10 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 405 426 km (251 920 mi).
Moon before ascending node
11 days after its descending node on 17 September 2023 at 19:18 in ♎ Libra, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next day, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 30 September 2023 at 16:49 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
26 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
6 days after previous South standstill on 23 September 2023 at 03:42 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-28.254°. Next 6 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠28.294° in the next northern standstill on 5 October 2023 at 20:31 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.