Full Moon on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 100%. The lunar cycle is 14 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 17 December 2070 at 16:05 UTC.
The moon rises at sunset and sets at sunrise. It is visible all night and it is high in the sky around midnight.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠23° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
The Full Moon these days is the Cold of December 2070.
There is extremely high Full Moon ocean tide on this date. Combined Sun and Moon gravitational tidal force working on Earth is heavy, because of the Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment and the near perigee.
Lunar disc appears visually 1.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1950".
The Moon is 14 days old and navigating through the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 877 of Meeus index or 1830 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 22 minutes and it is 22 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2070. 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°).
The length of the current synodic month is 6 hours and 38 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 25 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠163.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠187.9°.
Moon is at perigee at 19:41 about 13 days since last apogee on 4 December 2070 at 13:36 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 8 days until point of next apogee on 26 December 2070 at 07:40 in ♎ Libra.
This perigee Moon is 356 442 km (221 483 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's closest perigee of 2070. It is 6 066 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 17 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
4 days after descending node on 12 December 2070 at 18:04 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 25 December 2070 at 04:13 in ♎ Libra.
At 17:05 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠18.546°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-18.553° at the point of next southern standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 31 December 2070 at 07:48.
19 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
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