Waning
Gibbous ♉ Taurus
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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 ♈ Aries.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 12 October 2076 at 09:37 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 ♈ Aries
Moon is passing about ∠21° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1931"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1931" and ∠1923".
It is Hunter Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Hunter of October 2076.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 19 October 2076 at 18:51
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 27 October 2076 at 20:50
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 4 November 2076 at 01:58
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 10 November 2076 at 21:07
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 949 / 1902
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 949 of Meeus index or 1902 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.64 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 23 minutes. It is 45 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 2 hours and 39 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 24 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠219.7°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠219.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠254.1°.
Moon after perigee
2 days after point of perigee on 10 October 2076 at 06:57 in ♓ Pisces. 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 22 October 2076 at 03:11 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 371 224 km
The Moon is 371 224 km (230 668 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 9 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 879 km (251 580 mi).
Moon before ascending node
8 days after descending node on 4 October 2076 at 00:05 in ♐ Sagittarius. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 4 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 16 October 2076 at 15:38 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
23 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
6 days since the previous standstill on 5 October 2076 at 13:46 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-24.833°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠24.937° at the point of next northern standstill on 18 October 2076 at 10:01 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.
