Waning
Gibbous ♋ Cancer
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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 14 days old Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 13 December 2027 at 16:09 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 ♊ Gemini
Moon is passing about ∠19° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1919"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1919" and ∠1949".
It is Cold Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Cold of December 2027.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 20 December 2027 at 09:11
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 27 December 2027 at 20:12
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 5 January 2028 at 01:40
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 12 January 2028 at 04:03
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 345 / 1298
The Moon is 14 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 345 of Meeus index or 1298 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.7 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 48 minutes. It is 2 hours and 12 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 4 hours and 4 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 59 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠96°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠96°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠132.4°.
Moon before apogee
9 days after point of apogee on 4 December 2027 at 08:42 in ♒ Aquarius. 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 16 December 2027 at 02:21 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 373 465 km
The Moon is 373 465 km (232 060 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 364 026 km (226 195 mi).
Moon before descending node
10 days after ascending node on 2 December 2027 at 19:38 in ♑ Capricorn. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 3 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 16 December 2027 at 12:21 in ♌ Leo.
Draconic month
10 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon at northern standstill
At 16:06 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠26.569°. This is the year's northernmost lunar standstill of 2027. Over the next 13 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-26.576° at the point of next standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 26 December 2027 at 15:52.
Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy
The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
