Waning
Gibbous ♈ Aries
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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 14 days old Moon is in ♓ Pisces.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 21 September 2059 at 17:18 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 in ♓ Pisces
Moon is passing about ∠25° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1973"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1911".
It is Harvest Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Harvest of September 2059.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 28 September 2059 at 12:54
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 6 October 2059 at 15:50
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 14 October 2059 at 11:38
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 21 October 2059 at 02:15
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 738 / 1691
The Moon is 14 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 738 of Meeus index or 1691 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.7 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 49 minutes. It is 33 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 5 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 58 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠173.7°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠173.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠197.3°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 12:34. It is 13 days after previous apogee on 7 September 2059 at 16:10 in ♍ Virgo. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 13 days, until point of next apogee on 4 October 2059 at 18:25 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 356 861 km
This perigee Moon is 356 861 km (221 743 mi) away from Earth. It is 5 647 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 13 495 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon before ascending node
9 days after descending node on 12 September 2059 at 09:18 in ♏ Scorpio. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 25 September 2059 at 01:07 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
23 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
5 days since the previous standstill on 16 September 2059 at 04:41 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.003°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.089° at the point of next northern standstill on 28 September 2059 at 16:57 in ♋ Cancer.
Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy
The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
