Waning
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
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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 ♑ Capricorn.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 21 June 2081 at 07:32 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 is entering ♑ Capricorn
Moon is passing first ∠3° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1828"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1828" and ∠1888".
It is Strawberry Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Strawberry of June 2081.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 29 June 2081 at 09:00
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 6 July 2081 at 17:44
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 13 July 2081 at 09:34
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 20 July 2081 at 20:22
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 1007 / 1960
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 1007 of Meeus index or 1960 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.36 days
Length of current 1007 lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 43 minutes. It is 1 hour and 3 minutes longer than next lunation 1008 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 1 minute shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 8 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠298.3°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠298.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠322.9°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon before apogee
9 days after point of perigee on 11 June 2081 at 17:00 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 5 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 27 June 2081 at 03:39 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 392 215 km
Moon is 392 215 km (243 711 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 5 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 502 km (251 346 mi).
Moon before ascending node
7 days after its descending node on 13 June 2081 at 20:45 in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 6 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 27 June 2081 at 15:47 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
20 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon in southern standstill
At 03:07 on this date the Moon is meeting its South standstill point, when it will reach southern declination of ∠-28.324°. Next 14 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite northward direction to face North declination of ∠28.356° in its northern standstill point on 5 July 2081 at 12:53 in ♊ Gemini.
Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy
The Moon is in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun on this date and this alignment forms Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.