Full
Moon* ♓ 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 14 days old Moon is in ♓ Pisces.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 18 September 2081 at 03:45 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 ∠18° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1910".
It is Harvest Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Harvest of September 2081.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 18 September 2081 at 03:45
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 26 September 2081 at 01:30
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 2 October 2081 at 17:23
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 9 October 2081 at 15:58
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 1010 / 1963
The Moon is 14 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 1010 of Meeus index or 1963 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.35 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 22 minutes. It is 1 hour and 19 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 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.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠357.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠357.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠12.5°.
Moon at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 08:20. It is 13 days after previous perigee on 3 September 2081 at 13:09 in ♍ Virgo. Lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the next 14 days, until point of next perigee on 1 October 2081 at 23:44 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 406 234 km
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 in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♓ Pisces at 06:18 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 13 days later on 1 October 2081 at 01:46 in ♍ Virgo.
New draconic month
At 06:18 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon after southern standstill
6 days since the previous 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.
Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy
The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
