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 19 October 2051 at 19:13 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 ∠7° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
The Full Moon these days is the Hunter of October 2051.
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 2.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1927".
The Moon is 15 days old and navigating through the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 640 of Meeus index or 1593 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 12 minutes and it is 26 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. 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 5 hours and 28 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 35 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 ∠163.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠187.8°.
1 day since point of perigee on 19 October 2051 at 22:41 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 13 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 2 November 2051 at 17:22 in ♎ Libra.
The Moon is 363 402 km (225 808 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 13 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 481 km (252 576 mi).
1 day after descending node on 19 October 2051 at 14:46 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 2 November 2051 at 03:14 in ♎ Libra.
9 days since the last southern standstill on 10 October 2051 at 22:36 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.669° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.671° at the point of next northern standstill on 23 October 2051 at 15:33 in ♊ Gemini.
14 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra the Moon is navigating from the second to the final 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