Waning
Gibbous ♋ Cancer
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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 ♊ Gemini.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 10 December 2076 at 11:35 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 ♊ Gemini
Moon is passing about ∠20° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1843"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1843" and ∠1949".
It is Cold Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Cold of December 2076.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 18 December 2076 at 12:39
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 26 December 2076 at 00:53
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 1 January 2077 at 17:27
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 9 January 2077 at 04:37
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 951 / 1904
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 951 of Meeus index or 1904 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.56 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 25 minutes. It is 1 hour and 33 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 41 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 22 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠290.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠290.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠319.3°.
Moon before perigee
8 days after point of perigee on 1 December 2076 at 16:17 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 16 December 2076 at 20:13 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 389 008 km
The Moon is 389 008 km (241 718 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 6 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 712 km (251 476 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♊ Gemini at 07:37 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 14 days later on 24 December 2076 at 18:18 in ♐ Sagittarius.
New draconic month
At 07:37 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon before northern standstill
11 days since the previous standstill on 29 November 2076 at 01:35 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-25.107°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠25.101° at the point of next northern standstill on 12 December 2076 at 04:08 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.
