Waning
Gibbous ♊ Gemini
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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 ♊ Gemini.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 21 November 2029 at 04:03 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 ♊ Gemini
Moon is passing first ∠3° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1776"
Lunar disc appears visually 9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1776" and ∠1943".
It is Beaver Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Beaver of November 2029.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 28 November 2029 at 23:48
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 5 December 2029 at 14:52
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 12 December 2029 at 17:49
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 20 December 2029 at 22:46
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 369 / 1322
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 369 of Meeus index or 1322 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.44 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 28 minutes. It is 1 hour and 29 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 2 hours and 16 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 53 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠3.8°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠3.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠19.9°.
Moon after apogee
2 days after point of apogee on 19 November 2029 at 02:53 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 4 December 2029 at 10:38 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 403 577 km
The Moon is 403 577 km (250 771 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 12 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 359 274 km (223 243 mi).
Moon before descending node
12 days after ascending node on 8 November 2029 at 23:44 in ♐ Sagittarius. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 23 November 2029 at 08:55 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
12 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
13 days since the previous standstill on 8 November 2029 at 11:00 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-23.613°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠23.573° at the point of next northern standstill on 22 November 2029 at 17:59 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.
