Full
Moon* ♋ Cancer
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 ♊ Gemini.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 24 December 2045 at 00:49 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 ♊ Gemini
Moon is passing about ∠25° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1907"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1907" and ∠1951".
It is Cold Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Cold of December 2045.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 24 December 2045 at 00:49
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 30 December 2045 at 18:11
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 7 January 2046 at 04:24
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 15 January 2046 at 09:42
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 568 / 1521
The Moon is 14 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 568 of Meeus index or 1521 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.7 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 43 minutes. It is 2 hours and 3 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 59 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 4 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠92.2°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠92.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠129.2°.
Moon before apogee
8 days after point of apogee on 14 December 2045 at 21:16 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 26 December 2045 at 14:47 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 375 864 km
The Moon is 375 864 km (233 551 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 364 579 km (226 539 mi).
Moon before descending node
10 days after ascending node on 13 December 2045 at 03:42 in ♒ Aquarius. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 3 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 26 December 2045 at 21:24 in ♌ Leo.
Draconic month
10 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon at northern standstill
At 08:37 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠27.241°. This is the year's northernmost lunar standstill of 2045. Over the next 12 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-27.261° at the point of next standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 5 January 2046 at 05:58.
Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy
The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
