Full Moon on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 100%. The lunar cycle is 14 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 18 September 2081 at 03:45 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 about ∠18° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
The Full Moon these days is the Harvest of September 2081.
There is extremely high Full Moon ocean tide on this date. Combined Sun and Moon gravitational tidal force working on Earth is heavy, because of the Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment and the near perigee.
Lunar disc appears visually 7.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1910".
The Moon is 14 days old and navigating through the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1010 of Meeus index or 1963 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 22 minutes and it is 1 hour and 19 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 4 hours and 22 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 47 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠357.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠12.5°.
Moon is at apogee at 08:20 about 13 days since last perigee on 3 September 2081 at 13:09 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 14 days until point of next perigee on 1 October 2081 at 23:44 in ♍ Virgo.
This apogee Moon is 406 234 km (252 422 mi) away from Earth. It is 826 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 475 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon is in ascending node in ♓ Pisces at 06:18 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next descending node later on 1 October 2081 at 01:46 in ♍ Virgo.
6 days since the last southern standstill on 10 September 2081 at 20:08 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.547° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.512° at the point of next northern standstill on 25 September 2081 at 14:31 in ♊ Gemini.
At 06:18 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