Full
Moon ♉ Taurus
Moon phase for
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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 ♈ Aries.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 19 October 2070 at 18:59 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 ♈ Aries
Moon is passing about ∠23° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1920"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1920" and ∠1927".
It is Hunter Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Hunter of October 2070.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 26 October 2070 at 10:47
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 2 November 2070 at 22:42
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 11 November 2070 at 03:20
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 18 November 2070 at 05:40
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 875 / 1828
The Moon is 14 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 875 of Meeus index or 1828 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.65 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 41 minutes. It is 2 hours and 30 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 57 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 6 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠100.2°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠100.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠134.9°.
Moon before apogee
9 days after point of apogee on 10 October 2070 at 07:45 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 22 October 2070 at 03:04 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 373 302 km
The Moon is 373 302 km (231 959 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 363 541 km (225 894 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♈ Aries at 01:49 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 12 days later on 31 October 2070 at 23:32 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
14 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
9 days since the previous standstill on 10 October 2070 at 08:55 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.377°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.400° at the point of next northern standstill on 23 October 2070 at 19:48 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.
