Waning
Gibbous ♓ Pisces
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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 15 days old Moon is in ♓ Pisces.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 28 August 2072 at 15:59 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 ♓ Pisces
Moon is passing about ∠16° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1901".
It is Sturgeon Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Sturgeon of August 2072.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 5 September 2072 at 16:19
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 12 September 2072 at 09:07
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 19 September 2072 at 04:58
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 27 September 2072 at 08:43
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 898 / 1851
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 898 of Meeus index or 1851 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.32 days
Length of current 898 lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 46 minutes. It is 1 hour and 2 minutes shorter than next lunation 899 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 58 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 11 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠350.4°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠350.4°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠5.6°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon in apogee
Moon is reaching point of apogee on this date at 00:37, this is 14 days after last perigee on 14 August 2072 at 14:59 in ♌ Leo. Lunar orbit is starting to get closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth for 13 days ahead, until it will get to the point of next perigee on 12 September 2072 at 01:13 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 406 270 km
This apogee Moon is 406 270 km (252 444 mi) away from Earth. It is 862 km farther than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 439 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon after descending node
1 day after its descending node on 28 August 2072 at 23:05 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 13 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 11 September 2072 at 16:07 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
14 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
5 days after previous South standstill on 23 August 2072 at 14:36 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-18.564°. Next 8 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠18.564° in the next northern standstill on 7 September 2072 at 06:46 in ♋ Cancer.
Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy
The Moon is in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun on this date and this alignment forms Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.