Waning
Gibbous ♊ Gemini
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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 14 days old Moon is in ♉ Taurus.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 16 November 2081 at 13:19 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 ♉ Taurus
Moon is passing about ∠24° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1818"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1818" and ∠1941".
It is Beaver Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Beaver of November 2081.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 23 November 2081 at 19:49
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 30 November 2081 at 14:36
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 8 December 2081 at 06:38
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 16 December 2081 at 04:31
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 1012 / 1965
The Moon is 14 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 1012 of Meeus index or 1965 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.48 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 32 minutes. It is 2 hours and 20 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 1 hour and 12 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 57 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠29.7°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠29.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠52.5°.
Moon after apogee
5 days after point of apogee on 11 November 2081 at 04:54 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 27 November 2081 at 03:46 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 394 286 km
The Moon is 394 286 km (244 998 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 367 156 km (228 140 mi).
Moon after ascending node
5 days after ascending node on 10 November 2081 at 15:13 in ♓ Pisces. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 7 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 24 November 2081 at 11:52 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
5 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
11 days since the previous standstill on 4 November 2081 at 12:34 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.291°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.201° at the point of next northern standstill on 19 November 2081 at 01:19 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.
