Waning
Gibbous ♉ Taurus
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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 ♉ Taurus.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 20 October 2040 at 04:50 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 is entering ♉ Taurus
Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1874"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1874" and ∠1928".
It is Hunter Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Hunter of October 2040.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 28 October 2040 at 00:27
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 4 November 2040 at 18:56
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 11 November 2040 at 15:23
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 18 November 2040 at 19:06
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 504 / 1457
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 504 of Meeus index or 1457 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.56 days
Length of current 504 lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 30 minutes. It is 53 minutes longer than next lunation 505 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 46 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 6 hours and 17 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠261.6°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠261.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠297°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon after perigee
5 days after point of perigee on 15 October 2040 at 11:20 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 7 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 27 October 2040 at 22:34 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 382 520 km
Moon is 382 520 km (237 687 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 7 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 342 km (251 246 mi).
Moon before ascending node
11 days after its descending node on 9 October 2040 at 08:33 in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next day, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 22 October 2040 at 06:09 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
25 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before northern standstill
7 days after previous South standstill on 12 October 2040 at 12:03 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-26.728°. Next 5 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠26.789° in the next northern standstill on 25 October 2040 at 18:35 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.