Waning
Gibbous ♊ Gemini
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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 ♊ Gemini.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 28 November 2069 at 13:46 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 ♊ Gemini
Moon is passing about ∠6° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1968"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1968" and ∠1945".
It is Beaver Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Beaver of November 2069.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 5 December 2069 at 12:03
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 13 December 2069 at 17:38
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 21 December 2069 at 09:00
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 28 December 2069 at 00:50
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 864 / 1817
The Moon is 14 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 864 of Meeus index or 1817 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.79 days
Length of current 864 lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 1 minute. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2069. It is 1 hour and 15 minutes longer than next lunation 865 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 6 hours and 16 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 47 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠185.4°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠185.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠211.5°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon after perigee
1 day after point of perigee on 27 November 2069 at 21:53 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 12 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 10 December 2069 at 12:50 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 364 235 km
Moon is 364 235 km (226 325 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 12 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 042 km (252 303 mi).
Moon after descending node
2 days after its descending node on 26 November 2069 at 10:32 in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 11 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 9 December 2069 at 16:16 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
16 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before northern standstill
12 days after previous South standstill on 16 November 2069 at 09:59 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-19.293°. Next day the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠19.315° in the next northern standstill on 29 November 2069 at 13:04 in ♊ Gemini.
Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy
The Moon is in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun on this date and this alignment forms Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.