Waning
Gibbous ♒ Aquarius
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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 ♑ Capricorn.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 8 July 2074 at 17:05 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 ♑ Capricorn
Moon is leaving the last ∠2° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♒ Aquarius later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1918"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1918" and ∠1887".
It is Buck Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Buck of July 2074.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 16 July 2074 at 01:11
- New Moon in Leo ♌ on 24 July 2074 at 03:07
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 31 July 2074 at 07:30
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 7 August 2074 at 02:06
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 921 / 1874
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 921 of Meeus index or 1874 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.56 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 28 minutes. It is 1 hour and 36 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 44 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 19 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠218.8°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠218.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠250.9°.
Moon after perigee
2 days after point of perigee on 6 July 2074 at 14:26 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 18 July 2074 at 12:55 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 373 716 km
The Moon is 373 716 km (232 216 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 9 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 870 km (251 575 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♑ Capricorn at 19:46 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 14 days later on 24 July 2074 at 05:30 in ♌ Leo.
Draconic month
12 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
1 day since the previous standstill on 8 July 2074 at 08:12 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-21.006°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 13 days to face maximum declination of ∠21.003° at the point of next northern standstill on 22 July 2074 at 12:38 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.
