Waning
Gibbous ♉ Taurus
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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 ♈ Aries.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 30 September 2031 at 18:58 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 ♈ Aries
Moon is passing about ∠17° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1884"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1884" and ∠1917".
It is Hunter Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Hunter of October 2031.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 8 October 2031 at 10:50
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 16 October 2031 at 08:21
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 23 October 2031 at 07:36
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 30 October 2031 at 07:33
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 392 / 1345
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 392 of Meeus index or 1345 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.57 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 34 minutes. It is 45 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 50 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 13 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠245.2°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠245.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠281.8°.
Moon after perigee
4 days after point of perigee on 27 September 2031 at 07:09 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 9 October 2031 at 06:23 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 380 365 km
The Moon is 380 365 km (236 348 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 7 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 365 km (251 261 mi).
Moon before descending node
10 days after ascending node on 21 September 2031 at 02:24 in ♏ Scorpio. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 2 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 3 October 2031 at 22:04 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
10 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
8 days since the previous standstill on 23 September 2031 at 05:46 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-20.501°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠20.418° at the point of next northern standstill on 6 October 2031 at 07:31 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.
