Waning
Gibbous ♓ Pisces
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 15 days old Moon is in ♓ Pisces.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 22 August 2051 at 01:35 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 ♓ Pisces
Moon is passing about ∠5° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1938"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1938" and ∠1897".
It is Sturgeon Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Sturgeon of August 2051.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 28 August 2051 at 17:29
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 5 September 2051 at 04:33
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 13 September 2051 at 09:20
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 20 September 2051 at 10:11
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 638 / 1591
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 638 of Meeus index or 1591 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.56 days
Length of current 638 lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 28 minutes. It is 2 hours and 46 minutes shorter than next lunation 639 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 44 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 6 hours and 19 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠104.1°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠104.1°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠137°. 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 12 August 2051 at 11:22 in ♎ Libra. 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 24 August 2051 at 08:43 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 369 938 km
Moon is 369 938 km (229 869 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next day until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 363 298 km (225 743 mi).
Moon before descending node
10 days after its ascending node on 12 August 2051 at 11:44 in ♎ Libra, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 3 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 25 August 2051 at 20:56 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
10 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
5 days after previous South standstill on 17 August 2051 at 06:45 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-18.946°. Next 7 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠18.858° in the next northern standstill on 30 August 2051 at 01:37 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.