Full
Moon ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
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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 ♒ Aquarius.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 28 July 2045 at 22:11 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 ♒ Aquarius
Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1772"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1772" and ∠1890".
It is Buck Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Buck of July 2045.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 5 August 2045 at 23:57
- New Moon in Leo ♌ on 12 August 2045 at 17:39
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 19 August 2045 at 11:55
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 27 August 2045 at 14:08
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 563 / 1516
The Moon is 14 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 563 of Meeus index or 1516 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.3 days
Length of current 563 lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 11 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2045. It is 37 minutes shorter than next lunation 564 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 5 hours and 33 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 36 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠345.4°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠345.4°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠0.7°. 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 apogee
13 days after point of perigee on 15 July 2045 at 07:12 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next day, until it get to the point of next apogee on 30 July 2045 at 02:00 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 404 574 km
Moon is 404 574 km (251 391 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next day until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 198 km (252 400 mi).
Moon before ascending node
12 days after its descending node on 16 July 2045 at 11:05 in ♌ Leo, 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 30 July 2045 at 07:42 in ♒ Aquarius.
Draconic month
25 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
3 days after previous South standstill on 25 July 2045 at 09:40 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-27.770°. Next 11 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠27.798° in the next northern standstill on 8 August 2045 at 22:31 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.