Full Moon on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 99%. The lunar cycle is 15 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 5 January 2072 at 18:13 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 leaving the last ∠4° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♌ Leo later.
The Full Moon these days is the Wolf of January 2072.
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.
Lunar disc appears visually 0.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1968" and ∠1951".
The Moon is 15 days old and navigating through the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 890 of Meeus index or 1843 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 48 minutes and it is 41 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°).
The length of the current synodic month is 6 hours and 4 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 59 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 ∠138.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠166.3°.
Moon is at perigee at 17:46 about 12 days since last apogee on 25 December 2071 at 10:25 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next apogee on 21 January 2072 at 20:00 in ♒ Aquarius.
This perigee Moon is 358 353 km (222 670 mi) away from Earth. It is 4 155 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 12 003 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
9 days after descending node on 28 December 2071 at 08:59 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 10 January 2072 at 03:26 in ♍ Virgo.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 4 January 2072 at 21:58 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.460° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.436° at the point of next southern standstill on 18 January 2072 at 00:05 in ♑ Capricorn.
23 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo 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