Full Moon on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 100%. The lunar cycle is 14 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 15 June 2030 at 18:41 UTC.
The moon rises at sunset and sets at sunrise. It is visible all night and it is high in the sky around midnight.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠21° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
The Full Moon these days is the Strawberry of June 2030.
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.
Lunar disc appears visually 4.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1968" and ∠1889".
The Moon is 14 days old and navigating through the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 376 of Meeus index or 1329 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 13 minutes and it is 1 hour and 36 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 29 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 34 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠189° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠213.7°.
1 day since point of perigee on 14 June 2030 at 23:37 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 27 June 2030 at 14:14 in ♉ Taurus.
The Moon is 364 211 km (226 310 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 12 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 881 km (252 203 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♐ Sagittarius at 05:24 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next descending node later on 28 June 2030 at 23:50 in ♊ Gemini.
At 07:44 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-22.735°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠22.734° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 29 June 2030 at 02:45.
At 05:24 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.
The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com
Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov