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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 4 July 2031 at 19:01 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 ∠23° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1972"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1887".
It is Buck Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Buck of July 2031.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 11 July 2031 at 11:50
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 19 July 2031 at 13:40
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 27 July 2031 at 10:35
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 3 August 2031 at 01:45
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 389 / 1342
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 389 of Meeus index or 1342 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.64 days
Length of current 389 lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 16 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2031. It is 24 minutes longer than next lunation 390 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 31 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 31 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠165.9°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠165.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠188.7°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon after perigee
1 day after point of perigee on 4 July 2031 at 21:14 in ♑ Capricorn. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 13 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 18 July 2031 at 14:28 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 363 478 km
Moon is 363 478 km (225 855 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 13 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 535 km (252 609 mi).
Moon after ascending node
3 days after its ascending node on 1 July 2031 at 18:35 in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 9 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 14 July 2031 at 12:38 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
3 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
2 days after previous South standstill on 3 July 2031 at 05:15 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-21.077°. Next 10 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠21.045° in the next northern standstill on 16 July 2031 at 09:01 in ♊ Gemini.
Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy
The Moon is in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun on this date and this alignment forms Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.