Waning
Gibbous ♈ Aries
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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 ♓ Pisces.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 11 September 2079 at 05:36 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 ♓ Pisces
Moon is passing about ∠22° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1864"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1864" and ∠1906".
It is Harvest Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Harvest of September 2079.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 18 September 2079 at 05:22
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 25 September 2079 at 04:06
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 3 October 2079 at 02:35
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 10 October 2079 at 17:23
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 985 / 1938
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 985 of Meeus index or 1938 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.46 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 3 minutes. It is 3 hours and 11 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 41 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 28 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠50.5°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠50.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠80.4°.
Moon before apogee
7 days after point of apogee on 4 September 2079 at 08:27 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 18 September 2079 at 08:26 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 384 633 km
The Moon is 384 633 km (239 000 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 896 km (229 843 mi).
Moon before ascending node
12 days after descending node on 30 August 2079 at 09:11 in ♎ Libra. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 2 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 13 September 2079 at 17:20 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
24 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
6 days since the previous standstill on 5 September 2079 at 06:20 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.246°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.319° at the point of next northern standstill on 18 September 2079 at 20:00 in ♊ Gemini.
Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy
The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
