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Gibbous ♊ Gemini
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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 18 November 2040 at 19:06 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 ∠6° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1820"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1820" and ∠1942".
It is Beaver Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Beaver of November 2040.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 26 November 2040 at 21:07
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 4 December 2040 at 07:33
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 10 December 2040 at 23:30
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 18 December 2040 at 12:16
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 505 / 1458
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 505 of Meeus index or 1458 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.53 days
Length of current 505 lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 37 minutes. It is 1 hour and 2 minutes longer than next lunation 506 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 7 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 6 hours and 2 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠297°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠297°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠323.5°. 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 before apogee
10 days after point of perigee on 9 November 2040 at 06:17 in ♑ Capricorn. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 5 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 24 November 2040 at 19:12 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 393 863 km
Moon is 393 863 km (244 735 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 5 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 851 km (251 563 mi).
Moon after ascending node
1 day after its ascending node on 18 November 2040 at 14:37 in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 13 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 3 December 2040 at 01:02 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
1 day after beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon before northern standstill
10 days after previous South standstill on 8 November 2040 at 17:47 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-26.814°. Next 2 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠26.813° in the next northern standstill on 22 November 2040 at 02:56 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.