Waning
Gibbous ♌ Leo
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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 ♋ Cancer.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 17 January 2041 at 07:11 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 ♋ Cancer
Moon is passing first ∠0° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1770"
Lunar disc appears visually 9.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1770" and ∠1950".
It is Wolf Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Wolf of January 2041.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 25 January 2041 at 10:33
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 1 February 2041 at 05:43
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 7 February 2041 at 23:40
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 16 February 2041 at 02:21
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 507 / 1460
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 507 of Meeus index or 1460 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.44 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 35 minutes. It is 39 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 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.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠342.7°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠342.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠358.5°.
Moon before perigee
13 days after 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 day, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 18 January 2041 at 23:16 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 404 851 km
The Moon is 404 851 km (251 563 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 419 km (252 537 mi).
Moon after ascending node
5 days after ascending node on 12 January 2041 at 00:01 in ♉ Taurus. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 9 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 26 January 2041 at 15:09 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
5 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
1 day since the previous 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 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠-26.843° at the point of next southern standstill on 29 January 2041 at 22:24 in ♑ Capricorn.
Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy
The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
