Full Moon
Full MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Full Moon in Sagittarius

Full Moon on . Illuminated surface of the Moon is 100%. Lunar cycle is 14 days old.

* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 20 June 2035 at 19:37 UTC.

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.

Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♐ Sagittarius

Moon is leaving the last ∠4° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.

It is Strawberry Moon

The Full Moon these days is the Strawberry of June 2035.

Super spring tide

There is extremely high Full Moon ocean tide on this date. Combined Sun and Moon gravitational tidal force working on Earth is heavy, because of the Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment and the near perigee.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"

Lunar disc appears visually 6.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1888".

Lunation 438 / 1391

The Moon is 14 days old and navigating through the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 438 of Meeus index or 1391 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.28 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 6 hours and 39 minutes and it is 33 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2035. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).

Lunation length shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 6 hours and 5 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠354.2°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠354.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠9.1°.

Moon at apogee

Moon is at apogee at 12:30 about 14 days since last perigee on 6 June 2035 at 11:36 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 14 days until point of next perigee on 4 July 2035 at 21:00 in ♊ Gemini.

Distance to Moon 406 401 km

This apogee Moon is 406 401 km (252 526 mi) away from Earth. It is 993 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 308 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.

Moon before descending node

8 days after ascending node on 11 June 2035 at 20:42 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 26 June 2035 at 11:14 in ♓ Pisces.

Moon before southern standstill

13 days since the last northern standstill on 7 June 2035 at 10:40 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.820° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-18.862° at the point of next southern standstill on 21 June 2035 at 08:16 in ♑ Capricorn.

Draconic month

8 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy

The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

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