Waning
Gibbous ♓ Pisces
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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 ♒ Aquarius.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 17 August 2027 at 07:29 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 ♒ Aquarius
Moon is leaving the last ∠4° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♓ Pisces later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1773"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1773" and ∠1895".
It is Sturgeon Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Sturgeon of August 2027.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 25 August 2027 at 02:27
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 31 August 2027 at 17:41
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 7 September 2027 at 18:31
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 15 September 2027 at 23:04
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 341 / 1294
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 341 of Meeus index or 1294 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.32 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 36 minutes. It is 1 hour and 19 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 5 hours and 8 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 1 minute longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠2.6°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠2.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠18.2°.
Moon after apogee
1 day after point of apogee on 15 August 2027 at 14:23 in ♑ Capricorn. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 13 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 30 August 2027 at 15:36 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 404 211 km
The Moon is 404 211 km (251 165 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 13 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 359 208 km (223 202 mi).
Moon after ascending node
1 day after ascending node on 16 August 2027 at 05:51 in ♒ Aquarius. 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 29 August 2027 at 23:01 in ♌ Leo.
Draconic month
1 day since the beginning of current draconic month in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
5 days since the previous standstill on 12 August 2027 at 02:05 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.209°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.172° at the point of next northern standstill on 26 August 2027 at 14:14 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.
