Waning
Gibbous ♊ Gemini
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Full Moon 99% illuminated
Full Moon is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 99%. The 15 days old Moon is in ♉ Taurus.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 6 November 2052 at 21:09 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 ♉ Taurus
Moon is passing about ∠24° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1967"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1967" and ∠1937".
It is Beaver Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Beaver of November 2052.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 13 November 2052 at 11:50
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 21 November 2052 at 09:02
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 29 November 2052 at 12:16
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 6 December 2052 at 07:18
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 653 / 1606
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 653 of Meeus index or 1606 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.75 days
Length of current 653 lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 59 minutes. It is 1 hour and 14 minutes shorter than next lunation 654 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 5 hours and 15 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 48 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠138.2°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠138.2°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠165.7°. 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 in perigee
Moon is reaching point of perigee on this date at 21:03, this is 12 days after last apogee on 26 October 2052 at 13:06 in ♐ Sagittarius. Lunar orbit is starting to get wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth for 15 days ahead, until it will get to the point of next apogee on 22 November 2052 at 23:40 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 358 409 km
This perigee Moon is 358 409 km (222 705 mi) away from Earth. It is 4 099 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 11 947 km farther than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon after descending node
3 days after its descending node on 4 November 2052 at 03:03 in ♈ Aries, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 9 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 16 November 2052 at 18:46 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
17 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before northern standstill
10 days after previous South standstill on 27 October 2052 at 13:19 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-18.228°. Next 2 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠18.287° in the next northern standstill on 9 November 2052 at 18:39 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.