Waning
Gibbous ♓ Pisces
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 15 days old Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 19 August 2081 at 11:15 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 ♒ Aquarius
Moon is leaving the last ∠2° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♓ Pisces later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1772"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1772" and ∠1896".
It is Sturgeon Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Sturgeon of August 2081.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 27 August 2081 at 14:08
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 3 September 2081 at 09:01
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 10 September 2081 at 02:21
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 18 September 2081 at 03:45
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 1009 / 1962
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 1009 of Meeus index or 1962 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.32 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 38 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2081. It is 44 minutes shorter 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 6 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 3 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠341.4°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠341.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠357.1°.
Moon before perigee
13 days after point of perigee on 6 August 2081 at 03:56 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 21 August 2081 at 05:57 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 404 464 km
The Moon is 404 464 km (251 322 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 148 km (252 369 mi).
Moon before ascending node
12 days after descending node on 7 August 2081 at 04:49 in ♍ Virgo. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 21 August 2081 at 00:00 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
25 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
4 days since the previous standstill on 14 August 2081 at 14:13 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.500°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.537° at the point of next northern standstill on 29 August 2081 at 07:15 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.
