Waning
Gibbous ♋ Cancer
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Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Full Moon 99% illuminated
Full Moon is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 99%. The 15 days old Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 11 December 2038 at 17:30 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 leaving the last ∠1° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1792"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1792" and ∠1949".
It is Cold Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Cold of December 2038.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 19 December 2038 at 09:29
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 26 December 2038 at 01:02
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 2 January 2039 at 07:37
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 10 January 2039 at 11:45
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 481 / 1434
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 481 of Meeus index or 1434 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.47 days
Length of current 481 lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 15 minutes. It is 1 hour and 19 minutes shorter than next lunation 482 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 29 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 40 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠10.8°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠10.8°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠28.2°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon after apogee
3 days after point of apogee on 8 December 2038 at 13:35 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 11 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 24 December 2038 at 08:23 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 399 894 km
Moon is 399 894 km (248 483 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 11 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 361 283 km (224 491 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♊ Gemini at 16:05 on this date, it crosses the ecliptic from South to North. Moon will follow the northern part of its orbit for the next 13 days to meet descending node on 25 December 2038 at 19:56 in ♐ Sagittarius.
New draconic month
At 16:05 on this date the Moon is completing its previous draconic month and is entering the new one.
Moon before northern standstill
13 days after previous South standstill on 29 November 2038 at 02:24 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-23.865°. Next day the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠23.887° in the next northern standstill on 13 December 2038 at 13:26 in ♋ Cancer.
Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy
The Moon is in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun on this date and this alignment forms Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.