Full
Moon ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
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Full Moon 100% illuminated
Full Moon is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 100%. The 14 days old Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 8 July 2055 at 22:11 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 ♑ Capricorn
Moon is passing about ∠11° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1854"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1854" and ∠1887".
It is Buck Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Buck of July 2055.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 16 July 2055 at 22:15
- New Moon in Leo ♌ on 24 July 2055 at 09:48
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 31 July 2055 at 02:11
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 7 August 2055 at 10:57
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 686 / 1639
The Moon is 14 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 686 of Meeus index or 1639 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.4 days
Length of current 686 lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 32 minutes. It is 1 hour and 5 minutes longer than next lunation 687 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 3 hours and 12 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 57 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠288.5°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠288.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠315.9°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon before apogee
8 days after point of perigee on 30 June 2055 at 11:09 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 6 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 15 July 2055 at 07:49 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 386 551 km
Moon is 386 551 km (240 192 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 6 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 416 km (251 292 mi).
Moon before descending node
10 days after its ascending node on 27 June 2055 at 16:35 in ♌ Leo, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 2 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 10 July 2055 at 18:14 in ♒ Aquarius.
Draconic month
10 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♌ Leo, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon in southern standstill
At 11:08 on this date the Moon is meeting its South standstill point, when it will reach southern declination of ∠-20.424°. Next 14 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite northward direction to face North declination of ∠20.410° in its northern standstill point on 22 July 2055 at 22:16 in ♋ Cancer.
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.