Waning
Gibbous ♋ Cancer
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 ♊ Gemini.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 16 December 2081 at 04:31 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 ♊ Gemini
Moon is leaving the last ∠1° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1872"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1872" and ∠1950".
It is Cold Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Cold of December 2081.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 23 December 2081 at 03:55
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 30 December 2081 at 04:28
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 7 January 2082 at 04:45
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 14 January 2082 at 18:11
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 1013 / 1966
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 1013 of Meeus index or 1966 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.58 days
Length of current 1013 lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 52 minutes. It is 2 hours and 26 minutes shorter than next lunation 1014 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 8 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 55 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠52.5°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠52.5°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠84.8°. 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 before perigee
7 days after point of apogee on 9 December 2081 at 00:48 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 5 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 22 December 2081 at 10:49 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 382 994 km
Moon is 382 994 km (237 981 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 5 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 370 264 km (230 071 mi).
Moon before descending node
8 days after its ascending node on 7 December 2081 at 17:00 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 5 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 21 December 2081 at 12:04 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
8 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon in northern standstill
At 08:03 on this date the Moon is meeting its North standstill point, when it will reach northern declination of ∠28.126°. This is the year's northernmost lunar standstill of 2081. Next 12 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite southward direction to face South declination of ∠-28.138° in its southern standstill point on 29 December 2081 at 05:56 in ♐ Sagittarius.
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.