Full
Moon* ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Full Moon 99% illuminated
Full Moon is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 99%. The 14 days old Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 16 January 2071 at 02:35 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 ♋ Cancer
Moon is passing about ∠17° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1970"
Lunar disc appears visually 1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1970" and ∠1951".
It is Wolf Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Wolf of January 2071.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 16 January 2071 at 02:35
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 23 January 2071 at 02:16
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 31 January 2071 at 07:16
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 7 February 2071 at 22:30
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 878 / 1831
The Moon is 14 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 878 of Meeus index or 1831 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.79 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 1 minute. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2071. It is 1 hour and 44 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 6 hours and 16 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 47 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠187.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠187.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠214.7°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 08:40. It is 14 days after previous apogee on 31 December 2070 at 14:10 in ♐ Sagittarius. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 12 days, until point of next apogee on 27 January 2071 at 21:04 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 357 535 km
This perigee Moon is 357 535 km (222 162 mi) away from Earth. It is 4 973 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 12 821 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon before ascending node
6 days after descending node on 8 January 2071 at 19:49 in ♈ Aries. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 21 January 2071 at 06:04 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
21 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 after northern standstill
1 day since the previous standstill on 14 January 2071 at 05:41 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.487°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.432° at the point of next southern standstill on 27 January 2071 at 15:29 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy
The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
