Full Moon on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 100%. The lunar cycle is 15 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 21 October 2078 at 02:55 UTC.
The moon rises at sunset and sets at sunrise. It is visible all night and it is high in the sky around midnight.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing first ∠4° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
The Full Moon these days is the Hunter of October 2078.
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.
Lunar disc appears visually 2.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1969" and ∠1928".
The Moon is 15 days old and navigating through the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 974 of Meeus index or 1927 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 50 minutes and it is 1 hour and 22 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 6 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 57 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠146.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠172.1°.
Moon is at perigee at 20:52 about 12 days since last apogee on 9 October 2078 at 06:58 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next apogee on 5 November 2078 at 14:46 in ♏ Scorpio.
This perigee Moon is 357 814 km (222 335 mi) away from Earth. It is 4 694 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 12 542 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon is in ascending node in ♉ Taurus at 22:26 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next descending node later on 4 November 2078 at 12:25 in ♏ Scorpio.
8 days since the last southern standstill on 13 October 2078 at 00:13 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.596° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.619° at the point of next northern standstill on 25 October 2078 at 18:03 in ♊ Gemini.
At 22:26 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.
The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com
Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov