Waning
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
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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 ♐ Sagittarius.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 18 June 2046 at 13:10 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 ♐ Sagittarius
Moon is leaving the last ∠3° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1865"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1865" and ∠1888".
It is Strawberry Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Strawberry of June 2046.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 26 June 2046 at 10:40
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 4 July 2046 at 01:39
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 10 July 2046 at 19:53
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 18 July 2046 at 00:55
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 574 / 1527
The Moon is 14 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 574 of Meeus index or 1527 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.43 days
Length of current 574 lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 16 minutes. It is 1 hour and 29 minutes longer than next lunation 575 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 28 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours and 41 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠274°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠274°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠304.9°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon after perigee
6 days after point of perigee on 12 June 2046 at 03:54 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 7 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 25 June 2046 at 16:40 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 384 255 km
Moon is 384 255 km (238 765 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 7 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 192 km (251 153 mi).
Moon before ascending node
10 days after its descending node on 8 June 2046 at 09:42 in ♌ Leo, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 2 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 21 June 2046 at 10:29 in ♒ Aquarius.
Draconic month
24 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon in southern standstill
At 02:43 on this date the Moon is meeting its South standstill point, when it will reach southern declination of ∠-26.680°. Next 14 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite northward direction to face North declination of ∠26.701° in its northern standstill point on 2 July 2046 at 13:24 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.