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 ♊ Gemini.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 18 November 2070 at 05:40 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 is entering ♊ Gemini
Moon is passing first ∠0° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1962"
Lunar disc appears visually 1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1962" and ∠1942".
It is Beaver Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Beaver of November 2070.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 24 November 2070 at 20:20
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 2 December 2070 at 16:53
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 10 December 2070 at 20:32
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 17 December 2070 at 16:05
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 876 / 1829
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 876 of Meeus index or 1829 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.76 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 11 minutes. It is 1 hour and 11 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 5 hours and 27 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 36 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠134.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠134.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠163.2°.
Moon before apogee
11 days after point of apogee on 7 November 2070 at 02:03 in ♑ Capricorn. 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 19 November 2070 at 07:55 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 365 353 km
The Moon is 365 353 km (227 020 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 729 km (222 904 mi).
Moon after descending node
3 days after descending node on 15 November 2070 at 11:41 in ♈ Aries. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 9 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 28 November 2070 at 03:19 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
17 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
11 days since the previous standstill on 6 November 2070 at 16:41 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.443°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠18.488° at the point of next northern standstill on 20 November 2070 at 04:59 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.
