Full
Moon ♊ Gemini
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Full Moon 100% illuminated
Full Moon is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 100%. The 14 days old Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 28 November 2031 at 23:18 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 ∠1° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1820"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1820" and ∠1945".
It is Beaver Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Beaver of November 2031.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 7 December 2031 at 03:20
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 14 December 2031 at 09:06
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 21 December 2031 at 00:00
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 28 December 2031 at 17:33
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 394 / 1347
The Moon is 14 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 394 of Meeus index or 1347 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.5 days
Length of current 394 lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 56 minutes. It is 55 minutes longer than next lunation 395 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 48 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 21 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠312.6°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠312.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠334.7°. 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 before apogee
10 days after point of perigee on 17 November 2031 at 22:07 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 5 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 3 December 2031 at 22:35 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 393 907 km
Moon is 393 907 km (244 762 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 5 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 405 355 km (251 876 mi).
Moon after descending node
1 day after its descending node on 27 November 2031 at 14:01 in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 13 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 12 December 2031 at 01:37 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
13 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before northern standstill
11 days after previous South standstill on 16 November 2031 at 18:24 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-20.336°. Next day the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠20.350° in the next northern standstill on 30 November 2031 at 00:08 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.