Waning
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
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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 ♑ Capricorn.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 17 June 2057 at 02:18 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 is entering ♑ Capricorn
Moon is passing first ∠3° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1971"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1971" and ∠1888".
It is Strawberry Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Strawberry of June 2057.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 23 June 2057 at 21:08
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 1 July 2057 at 23:47
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 9 July 2057 at 18:37
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 16 July 2057 at 09:28
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 710 / 1663
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 710 of Meeus index or 1663 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.65 days
Length of current 710 lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 36 minutes. It is 51 minutes longer than next lunation 711 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 52 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 11 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠173.3°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠173.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠196.2°. 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 after perigee
1 day after point of perigee on 16 June 2057 at 22:08 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 12 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 30 June 2057 at 05:32 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 363 636 km
Moon is 363 636 km (225 953 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 12 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 331 km (252 482 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♐ Sagittarius at 13:09 on this date, it crosses the ecliptic from North to South. Moon will follow the southern part of its orbit for the next 13 days to meet ascending node on 1 July 2057 at 09:00 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
13 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is moving from the middle to the last part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
12 days after previous North standstill on 4 June 2057 at 20:49 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠23.700°. Next day the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-23.700° in the next southern standstill on 18 June 2057 at 03:11 in ♑ Capricorn.
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.