Waning
Gibbous ♒ Aquarius
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Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
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 ♑ Capricorn.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 6 July 2028 at 18:11 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 ∠24° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1803"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1803" and ∠1887".
It is Buck Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Buck of July 2028.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 14 July 2028 at 20:57
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 22 July 2028 at 03:02
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 28 July 2028 at 17:40
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 5 August 2028 at 08:10
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 352 / 1305
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 352 of Meeus index or 1305 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.36 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 34 minutes. It is 52 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 10 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 59 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠308.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠308.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠330.4°.
Moon before perigee
11 days after point of perigee on 26 June 2028 at 04:14 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 11 July 2028 at 22:26 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 397 521 km
The Moon is 397 521 km (247 008 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 4 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 945 km (251 621 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♑ Capricorn at 09:34 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 14 days later on 21 July 2028 at 16:09 in ♋ Cancer.
New draconic month
At 09:34 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon after southern standstill
2 days since the previous standstill on 4 July 2028 at 18:46 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-25.933°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠25.940° at the point of next northern standstill on 19 July 2028 at 07:49 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.
