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Moon ♉ Taurus
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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 19 October 2051 at 19:13 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 ♈ Aries
Moon is passing about ∠22° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1972"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1927".
It is Hunter Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Hunter of October 2051.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 26 October 2051 at 12:39
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 3 November 2051 at 14:59
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 11 November 2051 at 13:07
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 18 November 2051 at 05:06
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 640 / 1593
The Moon is 14 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 640 of Meeus index or 1593 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.76 days
Length of current 640 lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 12 minutes. It is 26 minutes shorter than next lunation 641 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 5 hours and 28 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 35 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠163.9°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠163.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠187.8°. 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 22:41, this is 13 days after last apogee on 6 October 2051 at 15:34 in ♎ Libra. Lunar orbit is starting to get wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth for 14 days ahead, until it will get to the point of next apogee on 2 November 2051 at 17:22 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 356 809 km
This perigee Moon is 356 809 km (221 711 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's closest perigee of 2051. It is 5 699 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 384 km farther than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♈ Aries at 14:46 on this date, it crosses the ecliptic from North to South. Moon will follow the southern part of its orbit for the next 13 days to meet ascending node on 2 November 2051 at 03:14 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
13 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is moving from the middle to the last part of it.
Moon before northern standstill
8 days after previous South standstill on 10 October 2051 at 22:36 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-18.669°. Next 4 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠18.671° in the next northern standstill on 23 October 2051 at 15:33 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.