Full Moon on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 99%. The lunar cycle is 14 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 17 January 2041 at 07:11 UTC.
The moon rises at sunset and sets at sunrise. It is visible all night and it is high in the sky around midnight.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠18° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
The Full Moon these days is the Wolf of January 2041.
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.
Lunar disc appears visually 9.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1777" and ∠1950".
The Moon is 14 days old and navigating through the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 507 of Meeus index or 1460 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 35 minutes and it is 39 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 9 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠342.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠358.5°.
12 days since point of perigee on 3 January 2041 at 19:39 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 18 January 2041 at 23:16 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 403 303 km (250 601 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 419 km (252 537 mi).
4 days after ascending node on 12 January 2041 at 00:01 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 26 January 2041 at 15:09 in ♏ Scorpio.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 15 January 2041 at 15:57 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.766° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 13 days to face maximum declination of ∠-26.843° at the point of next southern standstill on 29 January 2041 at 22:24 in ♑ Capricorn.
4 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com
Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov