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Moon ♋ 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 ♋ Cancer.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 31 December 2028 at 16:48 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 ♋ Cancer
Moon is passing about ∠8° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1878"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1878" and ∠1951".
It is Cold Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Cold of December 2028.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 7 January 2029 at 13:26
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 14 January 2029 at 17:24
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 22 January 2029 at 19:23
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 30 January 2029 at 06:03
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 358 / 1311
The Moon is 14 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 358 of Meeus index or 1311 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.64 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 18 minutes. It is 1 hour and 49 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 2 hours and 34 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 29 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠63.8°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠63.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠99.9°.
Moon before apogee
7 days after point of apogee on 23 December 2028 at 21:00 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 5 January 2029 at 04:16 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 381 609 km
The Moon is 381 609 km (237 121 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 4 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 368 918 km (229 235 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♋ Cancer at 22:49 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 13 days later on 13 January 2029 at 21:21 in ♑ Capricorn.
Draconic month
13 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
1 day since the previous standstill on 30 December 2028 at 02:35 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠25.195°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠-25.199° at the point of next southern standstill on 12 January 2029 at 00:15 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy
The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
