Full
Moon ♒ Aquarius
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 14 days old Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 24 July 2078 at 22:07 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 ∠3° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♒ Aquarius later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1847"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1847" and ∠1889".
It is Buck Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Buck of July 2078.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 31 July 2078 at 21:11
- New Moon in Leo ♌ on 7 August 2078 at 19:52
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 15 August 2078 at 17:34
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 23 August 2078 at 08:11
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 971 / 1924
The Moon is 14 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 971 of Meeus index or 1924 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.4 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 43 minutes. It is 2 hours and 24 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 3 hours and 1 minute shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 8 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠50.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠50.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠80.3°.
Moon after apogee
6 days after point of apogee on 18 July 2078 at 01:21 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 1 August 2078 at 02:41 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 388 012 km
The Moon is 388 012 km (241 099 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 7 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 774 km (229 767 mi).
Moon after descending node
5 days after descending node on 18 July 2078 at 20:35 in ♏ Scorpio. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 7 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 1 August 2078 at 08:13 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
19 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
1 day since the previous standstill on 22 July 2078 at 23:47 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.072°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.132° at the point of next northern standstill on 5 August 2078 at 00:22 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.
