Waning
Gibbous ♈ Aries
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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 15 days old Moon is in ♓ Pisces.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 4 September 2085 at 00:41 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 ∠19° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1967"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1967" and ∠1903".
It is Harvest Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Harvest of September 2085.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 10 September 2085 at 21:07
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 19 September 2085 at 01:07
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 26 September 2085 at 18:18
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 3 October 2085 at 08:53
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 1059 / 2012
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 1059 of Meeus index or 2012 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.66 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 56 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2085. It is 3 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 12 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 51 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠180.2°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠180.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠204.1°.
Moon after perigee
1 day after point of perigee on 3 September 2085 at 13:43 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 16 September 2085 at 12:30 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 364 444 km
The Moon is 364 444 km (226 455 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 12 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 253 km (252 434 mi).
Moon after ascending node
5 days after ascending node on 30 August 2085 at 02:34 in ♐ Sagittarius. 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 11 September 2085 at 15:17 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
5 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
6 days since the previous standstill on 29 August 2085 at 08:12 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-23.865°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠23.764° at the point of next northern standstill on 10 September 2085 at 21:10 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.
