Waning
Gibbous ♒ Aquarius
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 15 days old Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 7 July 2047 at 10:33 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 ♑ Capricorn
Moon is passing about ∠16° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1907"
Lunar disc appears visually 1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1907" and ∠1887".
It is Buck Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Buck of July 2047.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 15 July 2047 at 00:09
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 22 July 2047 at 22:49
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 29 July 2047 at 22:03
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 5 August 2047 at 20:38
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 587 / 1540
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 587 of Meeus index or 1540 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.51 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 13 minutes. It is 1 hour and 46 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 31 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 38 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠240°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠240°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠274.9°.
Moon after perigee
3 days after point of perigee on 4 July 2047 at 04:56 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 16 July 2047 at 03:57 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 375 943 km
The Moon is 375 943 km (233 600 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 8 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 370 km (251 264 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♑ Capricorn at 11:43 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 14 days later on 21 July 2047 at 20:52 in ♋ Cancer.
New draconic month
At 11:43 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon after southern standstill
1 day since the previous standstill on 5 July 2047 at 15:10 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-25.343°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠25.339° at the point of next northern standstill on 19 July 2047 at 18:19 in ♊ Gemini.
Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy
The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
