Waning
Gibbous ♊ Gemini
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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 14 days old Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 3 December 2036 at 14:08 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 ♊ Gemini
Moon is passing about ∠11° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1897"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1897" and ∠1947".
It is Cold Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Cold of December 2036.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 10 December 2036 at 09:18
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 17 December 2036 at 15:34
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 25 December 2036 at 19:44
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 2 January 2037 at 02:35
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 456 / 1409
The Moon is 14 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 456 of Meeus index or 1409 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.64 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 20 minutes. It is 2 hours and 40 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 36 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 27 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠76°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠76°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠113°.
Moon before apogee
8 days after point of apogee on 25 November 2036 at 04:24 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 7 December 2036 at 01:52 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 377 841 km
The Moon is 377 841 km (234 780 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 367 178 km (228 154 mi).
Moon before ascending node
9 days after descending node on 23 November 2036 at 22:06 in ♒ Aquarius. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 4 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 7 December 2036 at 14:24 in ♌ Leo.
Draconic month
22 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♌ Leo, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
12 days since the previous standstill on 21 November 2036 at 10:22 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-20.497°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠20.561° at the point of next northern standstill on 5 December 2036 at 14:26 in ♋ Cancer.
Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy
The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
