Full Moon
Full MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Full Moon in Pisces

Full Moon on . Illuminated surface of the Moon is 100%. Lunar cycle is 15 days old.

* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 10 September 2041 at 09:24 UTC.

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.

Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♓ Pisces

Moon is passing about ∠20° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.

It is Harvest Moon

The Full Moon these days is the Harvest of September 2041.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1971"

Lunar disc appears visually 3.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1971" and ∠1906".

Lunation 515 / 1468

The Moon is 15 days old and navigating through the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 515 of Meeus index or 1468 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.68 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 25 minutes and it is 24 minutes shorter 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°).

Lunation length longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 41 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 22 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠176.4°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠176.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠200.1°.

Moon at perigee

Moon is at perigee at 02:12 about 14 days since last apogee on 27 August 2041 at 02:03 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next apogee on 23 September 2041 at 04:59 in ♍ Virgo.

Distance to Moon 357 004 km

This perigee Moon is 357 004 km (221 832 mi) away from Earth. It is 5 504 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 13 352 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.

Moon before ascending node

9 days after descending node on 1 September 2041 at 00:51 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 13 September 2041 at 16:25 in ♈ Aries.

Moon after southern standstill

4 days since the last southern standstill on 5 September 2041 at 12:54 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.620° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.700° at the point of next northern standstill on 18 September 2041 at 03:03 in ♋ Cancer.

Draconic month

24 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy

The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

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