Full
Moon ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
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 14 days old Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 23 July 2051 at 16:36 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 ♑ Capricorn
Moon is leaving the last ∠2° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♒ Aquarius later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1883"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1883" and ∠1889".
It is Buck Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Buck of July 2051.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 30 July 2051 at 11:52
- New Moon in Leo ♌ on 6 August 2051 at 15:05
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 14 August 2051 at 16:49
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 22 August 2051 at 01:35
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 637 / 1590
The Moon is 14 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 637 of Meeus index or 1590 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.46 days
Length of current 637 lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 56 minutes. It is 2 hours and 32 minutes shorter than next lunation 638 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 48 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 21 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠70.2°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠70.2°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠104.1°. 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
7 days after point of apogee on 15 July 2051 at 16:49 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 4 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 28 July 2051 at 00:46 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 380 640 km
Moon is 380 640 km (236 519 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 4 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 368 220 km (228 801 mi).
Moon before descending node
7 days after its ascending node on 16 July 2051 at 09:35 in ♎ Libra, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 6 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 29 July 2051 at 18:33 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
7 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
2 days after previous South standstill on 20 July 2051 at 20:52 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-19.133°. Next 10 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠19.057° in the next northern standstill on 2 August 2051 at 19:38 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.