Waning
Gibbous ♉ Taurus
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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 ♉ Taurus.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 22 October 2029 at 09:28 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 is entering ♉ Taurus
Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1929".
It is Hunter Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Hunter of October 2029.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 30 October 2029 at 11:32
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 6 November 2029 at 04:24
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 13 November 2029 at 00:35
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 21 November 2029 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 368 / 1321
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 368 of Meeus index or 1321 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.38 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 10 minutes. It is 1 hour and 18 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 34 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 35 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠348.5°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠348.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠3.8°.
Moon before perigee
14 days after point of perigee on 8 October 2029 at 11:26 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 23 October 2029 at 02:02 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 405 399 km
The Moon is 405 399 km (251 903 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 433 km (252 546 mi).
Moon before descending node
9 days after ascending node on 12 October 2029 at 17:59 in ♐ Sagittarius. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 4 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 27 October 2029 at 05:23 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
9 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
10 days since the previous standstill on 12 October 2029 at 01:50 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-23.772°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠23.659° at the point of next northern standstill on 26 October 2029 at 12:40 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.
