Full
Moon* ♋ Cancer
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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 ♋ Cancer.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 12 January 2047 at 01:21 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 ♋ Cancer
Moon is passing about ∠14° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1865"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1865" and ∠1951".
It is Wolf Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Wolf of January 2047.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 12 January 2047 at 01:21
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 18 January 2047 at 22:32
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 26 January 2047 at 01:44
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 3 February 2047 at 03:09
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 581 / 1534
The Moon is 14 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 581 of Meeus index or 1534 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.63 days
Length of current 581 lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 5 minutes. It is 1 hour and 37 minutes shorter than next lunation 582 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 21 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 42 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠60.8°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠60.8°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠96.2°. 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 before perigee
7 days after point of apogee on 4 January 2047 at 09:26 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 5 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 16 January 2047 at 21:10 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 384 256 km
Moon is 384 256 km (238 766 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 5 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 369 325 km (229 488 mi).
Moon before descending node
13 days after its ascending node on 28 December 2046 at 21:09 in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next day, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 12 January 2047 at 07:29 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
13 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
1 day after previous North standstill on 9 January 2047 at 16:36 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠26.065°. Next 11 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-26.072° in the next southern standstill on 22 January 2047 at 15:26 in ♐ Sagittarius.
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.