Waning
Gibbous ♌ Leo
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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 ♌ Leo.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 25 January 2024 at 17:54 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 ♌ Leo
Moon is passing about ∠14° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1780"
Lunar disc appears visually 9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1780" and ∠1949".
It is Wolf Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Wolf of January 2024.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 2 February 2024 at 23:18
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 9 February 2024 at 22:59
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 16 February 2024 at 15:01
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 24 February 2024 at 12:30
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 297 / 1250
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 297 of Meeus index or 1250 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.46 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 2 minutes. It is 1 hour and 1 minute 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 42 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 27 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠328°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠328°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠345.9°.
Moon before perigee
13 days after point of perigee on 13 January 2024 at 10:35 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 29 January 2024 at 08:14 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 402 678 km
The Moon is 402 678 km (250 213 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 781 km (252 141 mi).
Moon before descending node
8 days after ascending node on 17 January 2024 at 14:05 in ♈ Aries. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 5 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 31 January 2024 at 20:17 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
8 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
3 days since the previous standstill on 23 January 2024 at 03:44 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.203°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.304° at the point of next southern standstill on 6 February 2024 at 17:06 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy
The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
