Waning
Gibbous ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Full Moon 100% illuminated
Full Moon is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 100%. The 15 days old Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 2 January 2075 at 09:39 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 ∠13° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1779"
Lunar disc appears visually 9.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1779" and ∠1951".
It is Wolf Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Wolf of January 2075.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 10 January 2075 at 03:14
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 16 January 2075 at 18:37
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 23 January 2075 at 23:32
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 1 February 2075 at 04:13
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 927 / 1880
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 927 of Meeus index or 1880 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.47 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 17 minutes. It is 47 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 1 hour and 27 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 42 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠7.7°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠7.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠24.6°.
Moon after apogee
2 days after point of apogee on 30 December 2074 at 16:12 in ♊ Gemini. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 15 January 2075 at 07:21 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 402 821 km
The Moon is 402 821 km (250 301 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 12 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 360 371 km (223 924 mi).
Moon before ascending node
13 days after descending node on 20 December 2074 at 02:32 in ♑ Capricorn. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 3 January 2075 at 08:42 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
26 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon at northern standstill
At 09:48 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠21.829°. Over the next 13 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-21.820° at the point of next standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 15 January 2075 at 19:15.
Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy
The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
