Waning
Gibbous ♓ Pisces
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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 ♓ Pisces.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 27 August 2045 at 14:08 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 ∠16° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1777"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1777" and ∠1900".
It is Sturgeon Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Sturgeon of August 2045.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 4 September 2045 at 10:03
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 11 September 2045 at 01:27
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 18 September 2045 at 01:30
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 26 September 2045 at 06:11
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 564 / 1517
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 564 of Meeus index or 1517 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.33 days
Length of current 564 lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 48 minutes. It is 1 hour and 21 minutes shorter than next lunation 565 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 56 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 13 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠0.7°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠0.7°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠16.2°. 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 after apogee
2 days after point of apogee on 26 August 2045 at 04:13 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 12 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 10 September 2045 at 02:20 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 403 413 km
Moon is 403 413 km (250 669 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 12 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 358 804 km (222 950 mi).
Moon after ascending node
1 day after its ascending node on 26 August 2045 at 14:00 in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 11 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 9 September 2045 at 07:56 in ♌ Leo.
Draconic month
1 day after beginning of current draconic month in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
6 days after previous South standstill on 21 August 2045 at 15:27 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-27.803°. Next 7 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠27.764° in the next northern standstill on 5 September 2045 at 06:33 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.