Full Moon on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 100%. The lunar cycle is 15 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 16 June 2087 at 06:58 UTC.
The moon rises at sunset and sets at sunrise. It is visible all night and it is high in the sky around midnight.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is leaving the last ∠2° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.
The Full Moon these days is the Strawberry of June 2087.
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.
Lunar disc appears visually 4.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1799" and ∠1889".
The Moon is 15 days old and navigating through the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1081 of Meeus index or 2034 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 52 minutes and it is 57 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 52 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 17 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠19° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠37.8°.
4 days since point of apogee on 12 June 2087 at 06:07 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 28 June 2087 at 01:08 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 398 507 km (247 621 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 11 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 363 598 km (225 929 mi).
2 days after ascending node on 13 June 2087 at 18:16 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 27 June 2087 at 08:36 in ♉ Taurus.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 15 June 2087 at 17:46 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-20.814° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠20.796° at the point of next northern standstill on 29 June 2087 at 00:49 in ♊ Gemini.
2 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com
Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov