Waning
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
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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 ♑ Capricorn.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 22 June 2024 at 01:08 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 ♑ Capricorn
Moon is passing about ∠7° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1885"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1885" and ∠1888".
It is Strawberry Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Strawberry of June 2024.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 28 June 2024 at 21:53
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 5 July 2024 at 22:57
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 13 July 2024 at 22:49
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 21 July 2024 at 10:17
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 302 / 1255
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 302 of Meeus index or 1255 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.43 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 20 minutes. It is 1 hour and 56 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
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.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠60.7°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠60.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠93.2°.
Moon before apogee
7 days after 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.
Distance to Moon 380 344 km
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).
Moon after descending node
6 days after descending node on 15 June 2024 at 20:17 in ♎ Libra. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 6 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 29 June 2024 at 04:26 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
20 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 at southern standstill
At 02:41 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-28.345°. Over the next 12 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠28.352° at the point of next standstill in ♋ Cancer on 5 July 2024 at 00:08.
Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy
The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
