Full
Moon ♈ Aries
Moon phase for
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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 ♈ Aries.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 30 September 2050 at 17:31 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 ♈ Aries
Moon is passing first ∠4° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1969"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1969" and ∠1916".
It is Harvest Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Harvest of September 2050.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 7 October 2050 at 16:32
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 15 October 2050 at 20:48
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 23 October 2050 at 12:10
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 30 October 2050 at 03:16
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 627 / 1580
The Moon is 14 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 627 of Meeus index or 1580 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.71 days
Length of current 627 lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 59 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2050. It is 6 minutes longer than next lunation 628 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 15 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 48 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠186.6°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠186.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠212°. 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 in perigee
Moon is reaching point of perigee on this date at 00:42, this is 14 days after last apogee on 15 September 2050 at 09:55 in ♍ Virgo. Lunar orbit is starting to get wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth for 12 days ahead, until it will get to the point of next apogee on 12 October 2050 at 15:51 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 357 710 km
This perigee Moon is 357 710 km (222 271 mi) away from Earth. It is 4 798 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 12 646 km farther than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon before descending node
10 days after its ascending node on 20 September 2050 at 06:06 in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 2 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 3 October 2050 at 00:50 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
10 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon before northern standstill
7 days after previous South standstill on 23 September 2050 at 06:36 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-19.906°. Next 5 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠19.840° in the next northern standstill on 5 October 2050 at 19:06 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.