Full Moon on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 100%. The lunar cycle is 15 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 21 August 2032 at 01:47 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 ∠5° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
The Full Moon these days is the Sturgeon of August 2032.
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 3.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1897".
The Moon is 15 days old and navigating through the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 403 of Meeus index or 1356 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 45 minutes and it is 45 minutes shorter 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 3 hours and 1 minute longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 2 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 ∠166.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠189.3°.
Moon is at perigee at 03:52 about 13 days since last apogee on 7 August 2032 at 17:16 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 13 days until point of next apogee on 3 September 2032 at 19:58 in ♌ Leo.
This perigee Moon is 356 879 km (221 754 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's closest perigee of 2032. It is 5 629 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 454 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
8 days after ascending node on 12 August 2032 at 19:55 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 25 August 2032 at 09:01 in ♉ Taurus.
4 days since the last southern standstill on 16 August 2032 at 13:55 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.386° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.299° at the point of next northern standstill on 29 August 2032 at 03:57 in ♊ Gemini.
8 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
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