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Moon ♉ Taurus
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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 ♈ Aries.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 17 October 2081 at 20:50 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 ♈ Aries
Moon is passing about ∠21° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1781"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1781" and ∠1926".
It is Hunter Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Hunter of October 2081.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 25 October 2081 at 11:13
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 1 November 2081 at 03:04
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 8 November 2081 at 09:40
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 16 November 2081 at 13:19
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 1011 / 1964
The Moon is 14 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 1011 of Meeus index or 1964 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.4 days
Length of current 1011 lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 41 minutes. It is 1 hour and 51 minutes shorter than next lunation 1012 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 3 hours and 3 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours and 6 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠12.5°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠12.5°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠29.7°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon after apogee
2 days after point of apogee on 14 October 2081 at 14:03 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 12 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 30 October 2081 at 07:55 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 402 481 km
Moon is 402 481 km (250 090 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 12 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 361 740 km (224 775 mi).
Moon after ascending node
3 days after its ascending node on 14 October 2081 at 11:52 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 10 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 28 October 2081 at 09:25 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
3 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon before northern standstill
9 days after previous South standstill on 8 October 2081 at 03:37 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-28.464°. Next 5 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠28.369° in the next northern standstill on 22 October 2081 at 20:04 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.