Full Moon
Full MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Full Moon in Aries

Full Moon on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 99%. The lunar cycle is 15 days old.

* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 12 September 2087 at 16:43 UTC.

Moonrise and moonset

The moon rises at sunset and sets at sunrise. It is visible all night and it is high in the sky around midnight.

Moon phases on nearby dates

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Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon is entering ♈ Aries

Moon is passing first ∠2° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.

It is Harvest Moon

The Full Moon these days is the Harvest of September 2087.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1936"

Lunar disc appears visually 1.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1936" and ∠1907".

Lunation 1084 / 2037

The Moon is 15 days old and navigating through the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1084 of Meeus index or 2037 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.57 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 39 minutes and it is 3 hours and 4 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°).

Lunation length longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 55 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 8 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠95.4°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠95.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠129.7°.

Moon before perigee

10 days since point of apogee on 3 September 2087 at 11:42 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 15 September 2087 at 08:02 in ♈ Aries.

Distance to Moon 370 161 km

The Moon is 370 161 km (230 007 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 364 504 km (226 492 mi).

Moon before descending node

10 days after ascending node on 3 September 2087 at 03:54 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 16 September 2087 at 15:01 in ♉ Taurus.

Moon before northern standstill

7 days since the last southern standstill on 5 September 2087 at 19:29 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-20.343° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠20.239° at the point of next northern standstill on 18 September 2087 at 21:42 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

10 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.

Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy

The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

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