Full
Moon* ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Full Moon 99% illuminated
Full Moon is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 99%. The 14 days old Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 3 August 2050 at 02:20 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 is entering ♒ Aquarius
Moon is passing first ∠2° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1950"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1950" and ∠1891".
It is Sturgeon Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Sturgeon of August 2050.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 3 August 2050 at 02:20
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 9 August 2050 at 16:48
- New Moon in Leo ♌ on 17 August 2050 at 11:47
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 25 August 2050 at 14:56
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 625 / 1578
The Moon is 14 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 625 of Meeus index or 1578 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.6 days
Length of current 625 lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 31 minutes. It is 1 hour and 31 minutes shorter than next lunation 626 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 47 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 16 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠137°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠137°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠163.4°. 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
10 days after point of apogee on 22 July 2050 at 20:27 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next day, until it get to the point of next perigee on 4 August 2050 at 05:06 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 367 571 km
Moon is 367 571 km (228 398 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next day until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 358 975 km (223 057 mi).
Moon after ascending node
5 days after its ascending node on 28 July 2050 at 02:39 in ♏ Scorpio, 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 9 August 2050 at 15:07 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
5 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
2 days after previous South standstill on 30 July 2050 at 14:00 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-20.346°. Next 9 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠20.265° in the next northern standstill on 12 August 2050 at 05:19 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.