Waning
Gibbous ♋ Cancer
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Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Full Moon 100% illuminated
Full Moon is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 100%. The 15 days old Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 25 December 2034 at 08:54 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 ♋ Cancer
Moon is passing about ∠6° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1960"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1960" and ∠1951".
It is Cold Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Cold of December 2034.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 1 January 2035 at 10:01
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 9 January 2035 at 15:03
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 17 January 2035 at 04:45
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 23 January 2035 at 20:16
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 432 / 1385
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 432 of Meeus index or 1385 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.78 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 49 minutes. It is 1 hour and 30 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 6 hours and 5 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 58 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠192.5°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠192.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠220.5°.
Moon after perigee
1 day after point of perigee on 24 December 2034 at 10:34 in ♊ Gemini. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 5 January 2035 at 18:52 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 365 620 km
The Moon is 365 620 km (227 186 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 976 km (252 262 mi).
Moon before ascending node
7 days after descending node on 18 December 2034 at 02:21 in ♓ Pisces. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 30 December 2034 at 13:10 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
22 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon at northern standstill
At 08:20 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠18.552°. This is the year's northernmost lunar standstill of 2034. Over the next 13 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-18.547° at the point of next standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 8 January 2035 at 08:12.
Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy
The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
