Full
Moon* ♋ 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 14 days old Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 27 December 2023 at 00:33 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 ♊ Gemini
Moon is leaving the last ∠2° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1836"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1836" and ∠1951".
It is Cold Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Cold of December 2023.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 27 December 2023 at 00:33
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 4 January 2024 at 03:30
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 11 January 2024 at 11:57
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 18 January 2024 at 03:53
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 296 / 1249
The Moon is 14 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 296 of Meeus index or 1249 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.52 days
Length of current 296 lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 25 minutes. It is 1 hour and 23 minutes longer than next lunation 297 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 19 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 50 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠303.6°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠303.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠328°. 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 before apogee
9 days after point of perigee on 16 December 2023 at 18:53 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 6 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 1 January 2024 at 15:28 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 390 383 km
Moon is 390 383 km (242 573 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 6 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 911 km (251 600 mi).
Moon after ascending node
4 days after its ascending node on 21 December 2023 at 13:54 in ♈ Aries, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 9 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 4 January 2024 at 18:52 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
4 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon in northern standstill
At 21:50 on this date the Moon is meeting its North standstill point, when it will reach northern declination of ∠28.131°. Next 14 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite southward direction to face South declination of ∠-28.164° in its southern standstill point on 10 January 2024 at 07:04 in ♑ Capricorn.
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.