Waning
Gibbous ♉ Taurus
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Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
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 ♈ Aries.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 9 October 2041 at 18:03 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 ♈ Aries
Moon is leaving the last ∠2° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♉ Taurus later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1943"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1943" and ∠1922".
It is Hunter Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Hunter of October 2041.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 16 October 2041 at 21:05
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 25 October 2041 at 01:30
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 1 November 2041 at 12:05
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 8 November 2041 at 04:43
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 516 / 1469
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 516 of Meeus index or 1469 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.7 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 49 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2041. It is 43 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 5 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 58 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠200.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠200.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠229.1°.
Moon after perigee
1 day after point of perigee on 8 October 2041 at 12:08 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 20 October 2041 at 16:08 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 368 838 km
The Moon is 368 838 km (229 185 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 544 km (251 993 mi).
Moon before ascending node
12 days after descending node on 28 September 2041 at 03:42 in ♏ Scorpio. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 11 October 2041 at 01:30 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
26 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
7 days since the previous standstill on 2 October 2041 at 19:54 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.789°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.830° at the point of next northern standstill on 15 October 2041 at 10:36 in ♋ Cancer.
Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy
The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
