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
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 46 minutes. It is 1 hour and 2 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 58 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 11 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠350.4°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠350.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠5.6°.
Moon at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 00:37. It is 14 days after previous perigee on 14 August 2072 at 14:59 in ♌ Leo. Lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the next 13 days, until 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 further 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 descending node on 28 August 2072 at 23:05 in ♓ Pisces. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 13 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 11 September 2072 at 16:07 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
14 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
5 days since the previous standstill on 23 August 2072 at 14:36 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.564°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.564° at the point of next northern standstill on 7 September 2072 at 06:46 in ♋ Cancer.
Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy
The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
