Full Moon on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 99%. The lunar cycle is 15 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 2 November 2047 at 16:58 UTC.
The moon rises at sunset and sets at sunrise. It is visible all night and it is high in the sky around midnight.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠20° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
The Full Moon these days is the Beaver of November 2047.
There is extremely high Full Moon ocean tide on this date. Combined Sun and Moon gravitational tidal force working on Earth is heavy, because of the Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment and the near perigee.
Lunar disc appears visually 9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1935".
The Moon is 15 days old and navigating through the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 591 of Meeus index or 1544 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 31 minutes and it is 1 hour and 8 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 13 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 56 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠346.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠2.2°.
Moon is at apogee at 16:20 about 14 days since last perigee on 19 October 2047 at 21:58 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 13 days until point of next perigee on 17 November 2047 at 09:53 in ♏ Scorpio.
This apogee Moon is 406 422 km (252 539 mi) away from Earth. It is 1 014 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 287 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
10 days after ascending node on 24 October 2047 at 02:50 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 7 November 2047 at 13:43 in ♋ Cancer.
11 days since the last southern standstill on 22 October 2047 at 17:18 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-24.711° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠24.612° at the point of next northern standstill on 5 November 2047 at 23:50 in ♊ Gemini.
10 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com
Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov