Full
Moon* ♓ Pisces
Moon phase for
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 14 days old Moon is in ♓ Pisces.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 19 September 2043 at 01:47 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 ♓ Pisces
Moon is passing about ∠18° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1899"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1899" and ∠1910".
It is Harvest Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Harvest of September 2043.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 19 September 2043 at 01:47
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 25 September 2043 at 18:40
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 3 October 2043 at 03:12
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 11 October 2043 at 07:05
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 540 / 1493
The Moon is 14 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 540 of Meeus index or 1493 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.58 days
Length of current 540 lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 55 minutes. It is 2 hours and 50 minutes shorter than next lunation 541 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 11 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 52 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠88.7°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠88.7°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠123.9°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon before perigee
8 days after point of apogee on 10 September 2043 at 03:40 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 3 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 22 September 2043 at 00:24 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 377 361 km
Moon is 377 361 km (234 481 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 3 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 365 389 km (227 042 mi).
Moon before ascending node
13 days after its descending node on 4 September 2043 at 23:58 in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next day, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 19 September 2043 at 07:48 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
26 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
6 days after previous South standstill on 12 September 2043 at 11:52 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-28.703°. Next 7 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠28.712° in the next northern standstill on 25 September 2043 at 14:42 in ♊ Gemini.
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.