Waning
Gibbous ♒ Aquarius
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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 ♒ Aquarius.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 26 July 2086 at 09:24 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 ♒ Aquarius
Moon is passing about ∠5° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1922"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1922" and ∠1889".
It is Buck Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Buck of July 2086.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 2 August 2086 at 01:01
- New Moon in Leo ♌ on 9 August 2086 at 10:38
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 17 August 2086 at 14:14
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 24 August 2086 at 17:25
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 1070 / 2023
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 1070 of Meeus index or 2023 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.53 days
Length of current 1070 lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 36 minutes. It is 2 hours and 3 minutes shorter than next lunation 1071 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 8 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 6 hours and 1 minute longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠95.5°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠95.5°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠129.5°. 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
9 days after point of apogee on 17 July 2086 at 04:25 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 2 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 29 July 2086 at 01:59 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 372 960 km
Moon is 372 960 km (231 747 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 2 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 364 494 km (226 486 mi).
Moon after ascending node
3 days after its ascending node on 22 July 2086 at 14:50 in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 8 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 4 August 2086 at 08:12 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
3 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
3 days after previous South standstill on 23 July 2086 at 01:34 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-22.388°. Next 9 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠22.322° in the next northern standstill on 4 August 2086 at 20:25 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.