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 30 September 2050 at 17:31 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 ∠19° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
The Full Moon these days is the Hunter of October 2050.
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.
Lunar disc appears visually 2.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1958" and ∠1917".
The Moon is 15 days old and navigating through the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 627 of Meeus index or 1580 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 59 minutes and it is 6 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2050. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 15 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 48 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠186.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠212°.
1 day since point of perigee on 30 September 2050 at 00:42 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 12 October 2050 at 15:51 in ♍ Virgo.
The Moon is 365 998 km (227 421 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 050 km (252 308 mi).
11 days after ascending node on 20 September 2050 at 06:06 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 3 October 2050 at 00:50 in ♉ Taurus.
8 days since the last southern standstill on 23 September 2050 at 06:36 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.906° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.840° at the point of next northern standstill on 5 October 2050 at 19:06 in ♊ Gemini.
11 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio 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