Full
Moon ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
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 ♒ Aquarius.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 14 August 2038 at 22:57 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 ♒ Aquarius
Moon is passing about ∠16° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1849"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1849" and ∠1894".
It is Sturgeon Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Sturgeon of August 2038.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 22 August 2038 at 23:12
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 30 August 2038 at 10:13
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 6 September 2038 at 01:51
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 13 September 2038 at 12:24
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 477 / 1430
The Moon is 14 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 477 of Meeus index or 1430 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.4 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 32 minutes. It is 47 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 12 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 57 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠293.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠293.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠319.9°.
Moon before perigee
8 days after point of perigee on 5 August 2038 at 21:36 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 21 August 2038 at 01:57 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 387 728 km
The Moon is 387 728 km (240 923 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 6 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 583 km (251 396 mi).
Moon after descending node
2 days after descending node on 11 August 2038 at 18:25 in ♑ Capricorn. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 11 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 26 August 2038 at 03:40 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
15 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
2 days since the previous standstill on 11 August 2038 at 22:09 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-23.076°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠23.151° at the point of next northern standstill on 26 August 2038 at 08:58 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.
