Waning
Gibbous ♋ Cancer
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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 ♋ Cancer.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 25 December 2053 at 09:23 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 ♋ Cancer
Moon is passing about ∠6° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1964"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1964" and ∠1951".
It is Cold Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Cold of December 2053.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 1 January 2054 at 01:11
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 8 January 2054 at 22:34
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 17 January 2054 at 02:14
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 23 January 2054 at 20:08
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 667 / 1620
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 667 of Meeus index or 1620 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.79 days
Length of current 667 lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 53 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2053. It is 47 minutes shorter than next lunation 668 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 6 hours and 9 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 54 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠141.1°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠141.1°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠168.6°. 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
11 days after point of apogee on 13 December 2053 at 21:20 in ♑ Capricorn. 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 26 December 2053 at 06:40 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 364 971 km
Moon is 364 971 km (226 782 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next day until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 358 032 km (222 471 mi).
Moon before ascending node
8 days after its descending node on 17 December 2053 at 00:48 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 4 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 29 December 2053 at 18:29 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
22 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon in northern standstill
At 11:21 on this date the Moon is meeting its North standstill point, when it will reach northern declination of ∠18.770°. This is the year's northernmost lunar standstill of 2053. Next 13 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite southward direction to face South declination of ∠-18.772° in its southern standstill point on 7 January 2054 at 19:44 in ♐ Sagittarius.
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.