Full Moon
Full MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Full Moon in Gemini

Full Moon on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 100%. The lunar cycle is 14 days old.

* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 11 December 2057 at 00:46 UTC.

Moonrise and moonset

The moon rises at sunset and sets at sunrise. It is visible all night and it is high in the sky around midnight.

Moon phases on nearby dates

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Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♊ Gemini

Moon is passing about ∠13° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.

It is Cold Moon

The Full Moon these days is the Cold of December 2057.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1779"

Lunar disc appears visually 9.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1779" and ∠1949".

Lunation 716 / 1669

The Moon is 14 days old and navigating through the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 716 of Meeus index or 1669 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.46 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 1 minute and it is 8 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).

Lunation length shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 44 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 25 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠339°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠339° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠355.4°.

Moon before apogee

12 days since point of perigee on 27 November 2057 at 20:20 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 13 December 2057 at 06:08 in ♋ Cancer.

Distance to Moon 402 865 km

The Moon is 402 865 km (250 329 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 205 km (252 404 mi).

Moon before ascending node

12 days after descending node on 27 November 2057 at 21:30 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 11 December 2057 at 10:23 in ♊ Gemini.

Moon before northern standstill

11 days since the last southern standstill on 29 November 2057 at 01:11 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-24.511° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠24.523° at the point of next northern standstill on 12 December 2057 at 21:42 in ♋ Cancer.

Draconic month

26 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy

The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

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