Waning
Gibbous ♈ Aries
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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 ♓ Pisces.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 15 September 2027 at 23:04 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 ∠1° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♈ Aries later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1803"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1803" and ∠1909".
It is Harvest Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Harvest of September 2027.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 23 September 2027 at 10:20
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 30 September 2027 at 02:36
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 7 October 2027 at 11:47
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 15 October 2027 at 13:47
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 342 / 1295
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 342 of Meeus index or 1295 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.37 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 55 minutes. It is 2 hours and 5 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 3 hours and 49 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 20 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠18.2°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠18.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠36.7°.
Moon after apogee
4 days after point of apogee on 11 September 2027 at 23:39 in ♑ Capricorn. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 27 September 2027 at 20:12 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 397 615 km
The Moon is 397 615 km (247 067 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 11 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 363 455 km (225 840 mi).
Moon after ascending node
4 days after ascending node on 12 September 2027 at 11:26 in ♒ Aquarius. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 9 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 26 September 2027 at 06:04 in ♌ Leo.
Draconic month
4 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
8 days since the previous standstill on 8 September 2027 at 08:57 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.122°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.015° at the point of next northern standstill on 22 September 2027 at 20:33 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.
