Full Moon on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 100%. The lunar cycle is 15 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 18 August 2054 at 09:22 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 leaving the last ∠3° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♓ Pisces later.
The Full Moon these days is the Sturgeon of August 2054.
There is extremely high Full Moon ocean tide on this date. Combined Sun and Moon gravitational tidal force working on Earth is heavy, because of the Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment and the near perigee.
Lunar disc appears visually 7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1896".
The Moon is 15 days old and navigating through the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 675 of Meeus index or 1628 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 30 minutes and it is 1 hour and 1 minute shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 14 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 55 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠352.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠7.4°.
Moon is at apogee at 10:18 about 14 days since last perigee on 4 August 2054 at 04:47 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 14 days until point of next perigee on 1 September 2054 at 14:49 in ♌ Leo.
This apogee Moon is 406 258 km (252 437 mi) away from Earth. It is 850 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 451 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon is in descending node in ♒ Aquarius at 14:57 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 1 September 2054 at 07:18 in ♌ Leo.
4 days since the last southern standstill on 14 August 2054 at 09:17 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.120° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.122° at the point of next northern standstill on 28 August 2054 at 21:36 in ♋ Cancer.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last 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