Full Moon on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 100%. The lunar cycle is 15 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 12 December 2065 at 19:52 UTC.
The moon rises at sunset and sets at sunrise. It is visible all night and it is high in the sky around midnight.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is leaving the last ∠1° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
The Full Moon these days is the Cold of December 2065.
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.
Lunar disc appears visually 9.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1775" and ∠1949".
The Moon is 15 days old and navigating through the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 815 of Meeus index or 1768 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 48 minutes and it is 59 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 57 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 13 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠0.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠16.6°.
2 days since point of apogee on 11 December 2065 at 06:28 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 25 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 7 January 2066 at 15:46 in ♉ Taurus.
The Moon is 403 769 km (250 890 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 25 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 716 km (252 100 mi).
12 days after ascending node on 30 November 2065 at 17:19 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 15 December 2065 at 01:34 in ♋ Cancer.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 12 December 2065 at 16:57 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠25.464° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠-25.485° at the point of next southern standstill on 26 December 2065 at 06:50 in ♐ Sagittarius.
12 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
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