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Moon ♈ Aries
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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 ♈ Aries.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 5 October 2055 at 18:38 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 ♈ Aries
Moon is passing about ∠9° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1919".
It is Hunter Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Hunter of October 2055.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 13 October 2055 at 18:22
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 20 October 2055 at 10:49
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 27 October 2055 at 07:53
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 4 November 2055 at 12:12
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 689 / 1642
The Moon is 14 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 689 of Meeus index or 1642 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.35 days
Length of current 689 lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 30 minutes. It is 1 hour and 15 minutes shorter than next lunation 690 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 14 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 55 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠352.8°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠352.8°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠7.9°. 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 apogee
Moon is reaching point of apogee on this date at 17:59, this is 14 days after last perigee on 21 September 2055 at 12:32 in ♎ Libra. Lunar orbit is starting to get closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth for 14 days ahead, until it will get to the point of next perigee on 19 October 2055 at 23:43 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 406 450 km
This apogee Moon is 406 450 km (252 556 mi) away from Earth. It is 1 042 km farther than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 259 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon after descending node
5 days after its descending node on 30 September 2055 at 10:30 in ♒ Aquarius, 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 15 October 2055 at 00:14 in ♌ Leo.
Draconic month
17 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♌ Leo, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
7 days after previous South standstill on 28 September 2055 at 05:09 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-20.612°. Next 7 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠20.758° in the next northern standstill on 13 October 2055 at 00:16 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.