Waning
Gibbous ♓ Pisces
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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 15 days old Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 13 August 2049 at 09:19 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 ♒ Aquarius
Moon is passing about ∠23° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1966"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1966" and ∠1894".
It is Sturgeon Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Sturgeon of August 2049.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 20 August 2049 at 07:10
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 28 August 2049 at 11:18
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 5 September 2049 at 02:28
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 11 September 2049 at 17:04
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 613 / 1566
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 613 of Meeus index or 1566 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.63 days
Length of current 613 lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 11 minutes. It is 25 minutes longer than next lunation 614 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 27 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 36 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠185.8°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠185.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠210.2°. 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
1 day after point of perigee on 12 August 2049 at 17:06 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 11 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 25 August 2049 at 10:27 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 364 523 km
Moon is 364 523 km (226 504 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 11 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 054 km (252 310 mi).
Moon after ascending node
5 days after its ascending node on 8 August 2049 at 08:48 in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 7 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 20 August 2049 at 22:31 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
5 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
4 days after previous South standstill on 9 August 2049 at 04:55 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-21.891°. Next 8 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠21.800° in the next northern standstill on 22 August 2049 at 00:08 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.