Waning
Gibbous ♊ Gemini
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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 ♉ Taurus.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 9 November 2068 at 11:40 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 ♉ Taurus
Moon is passing about ∠18° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1945"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1945" and ∠1938".
It is Beaver Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Beaver of November 2068.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 16 November 2068 at 17:33
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 24 November 2068 at 21:42
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 2 December 2068 at 05:21
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 8 December 2068 at 23:42
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 851 / 1804
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 851 of Meeus index or 1804 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.73 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 25 minutes. It is 1 hour and 23 minutes longer 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 41 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 22 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠209.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠209.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠241.5°.
Moon after perigee
1 day after point of perigee on 7 November 2068 at 20:44 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 19 November 2068 at 19:10 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 368 451 km
The Moon is 368 451 km (228 945 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 230 km (251 798 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♉ Taurus at 19:59 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 14 days later on 24 November 2068 at 01:37 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
12 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
10 days since the previous standstill on 29 October 2068 at 20:53 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-20.659°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠20.651° at the point of next northern standstill on 11 November 2068 at 15:07 in ♊ Gemini.
Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy
The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
