Full Moon
Full MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Full Moon in Aries

Full Moon on . Illuminated surface of the Moon is 100%. Lunar cycle is 15 days old.

* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 20 September 2070 at 07:47 UTC.

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.

Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon is entering ♈ Aries

Moon is passing first ∠0° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.

It is Harvest Moon

The Full Moon these days is the Harvest of September 2070.

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 ∠1887"

Lunar disc appears visually 1.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1887" and ∠1911".

Lunation 874 / 1827

The Moon is 15 days old and navigating through the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 874 of Meeus index or 1827 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.52 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 33 minutes and it is 3 hours and 8 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°).

Lunation length shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 11 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 58 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠66.1°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠66.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠100.2°.

Moon before perigee

7 days since point of apogee on 12 September 2070 at 12:02 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 24 September 2070 at 22:02 in ♉ Taurus.

Distance to Moon 379 811 km

The Moon is 379 811 km (236 004 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 4 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 368 697 km (229 098 mi).

Moon before descending node

13 days after ascending node on 7 September 2070 at 08:29 in ♎ Libra 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 21 September 2070 at 16:24 in ♈ Aries.

Moon before northern standstill

7 days since the last southern standstill on 13 September 2070 at 00:50 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.435° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.394° at the point of next northern standstill on 26 September 2070 at 13:29 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy

The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

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