Moon is leaving the last ∠3° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♉ Taurus later.
It is Hunter Moon
The Full Moon these days is the Hunter of October 2069.
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 ∠1969"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1969" and ∠1932".
Lunation 863 / 1816
The Moon is 14 days old and navigating through the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 863 of Meeus index or 1816 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 34 minutes and it is 26 minutes shorter 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 50 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 13 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠161.2°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠161.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠185.4°.
Moon before perigee
12 days since point of apogee on 17 October 2069 at 05:28 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 30 October 2069 at 09:15 in ♉ Taurus.
The Moon is 364 086 km(226 233 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 356 831 km(221 725 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♈ Aries at 23:39 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 12 November 2069 at 11:24 in ♏ Scorpio.
9 days since the last southern standstill on 20 October 2069 at 03:47 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.268° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.271° at the point of next northern standstill on 2 November 2069 at 01:44 in ♊ Gemini.