Waning
Gibbous ♈ Aries
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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 9 September 2052 at 00:15 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 ∠24° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1900"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1900" and ∠1906".
It is Harvest Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Harvest of September 2052.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 15 September 2052 at 19:48
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 22 September 2052 at 23:32
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 1 October 2052 at 01:36
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 8 October 2052 at 10:54
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 651 / 1604
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 651 of Meeus index or 1604 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.52 days
Length of current 651 lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 26 minutes. It is 3 hours and 5 minutes shorter than next lunation 652 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 18 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 51 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠69.9°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠69.9°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠104.4°. 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
8 days after point of apogee on 1 September 2052 at 00:01 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 3 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 13 September 2052 at 06:22 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 377 285 km
Moon is 377 285 km (234 434 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 3 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 368 182 km (228 778 mi).
Moon before descending node
13 days after its ascending node on 27 August 2052 at 00:15 in ♎ Libra, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next day, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 10 September 2052 at 07:41 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
13 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
6 days after previous South standstill on 2 September 2052 at 21:23 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-18.203°. Next 6 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠18.163° in the next northern standstill on 16 September 2052 at 04:17 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.