Waning
Gibbous ♈ Aries
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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 ♓ Pisces.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 7 September 2025 at 18:09 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 ♓ Pisces
Moon is leaving the last ∠4° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♈ Aries later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1933"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1933" and ∠1905".
It is Harvest Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Harvest of September 2025.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 14 September 2025 at 10:33
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 21 September 2025 at 19:54
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 29 September 2025 at 23:54
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 7 October 2025 at 03:47
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 317 / 1270
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 317 of Meeus index or 1270 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.58 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 48 minutes. It is 2 hours and 43 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 4 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 59 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠93°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠93°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠127.7°.
Moon before apogee
9 days after point of apogee on 29 August 2025 at 15:34 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 10 September 2025 at 12:09 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 370 761 km
The Moon is 370 761 km (230 380 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 364 781 km (226 664 mi).
Moon after ascending node
1 day after ascending node on 7 September 2025 at 23:08 in ♓ Pisces. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 12 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 20 September 2025 at 23:13 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
1 day since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
6 days since the previous standstill on 1 September 2025 at 22:04 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.623°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.630° at the point of next northern standstill on 14 September 2025 at 21:23 in ♊ Gemini.
Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy
The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
