Full Moon on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 100%. The lunar cycle is 15 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 22 June 2024 at 01:08 UTC.
The moon rises at sunset and sets at sunrise. It is visible all night and it is high in the sky around midnight.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠7° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
The Full Moon these days is the Strawberry of June 2024.
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.
Lunar disc appears visually 0.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1885" and ∠1888".
The Moon is 15 days old and navigating through the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 302 of Meeus index or 1255 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 20 minutes and it is 1 hour and 56 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 24 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 45 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠60.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠93.2°.
7 days since point of apogee on 14 June 2024 at 13:36 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 27 June 2024 at 11:45 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 380 344 km (236 335 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 4 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 292 km (229 467 mi).
6 days after descending node on 15 June 2024 at 20:17 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 29 June 2024 at 04:26 in ♈ Aries.
At 02:41 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-28.345°. Over the upcoming 12 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠28.352° at the point of next northern standstill in ♋ Cancer on 5 July 2024 at 00:08.
20 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com
Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov