Full
Moon* ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Full Moon 99% illuminated
Full Moon is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 99%. The 14 days old Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 16 January 2090 at 03:02 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 ♋ Cancer
Moon is passing about ∠17° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1949"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1949" and ∠1951".
It is Wolf Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Wolf of January 2090.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 16 January 2090 at 03:02
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 22 January 2090 at 18:38
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 30 January 2090 at 14:34
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 7 February 2090 at 18:52
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 1113 / 2066
The Moon is 14 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 1113 of Meeus index or 2066 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.78 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 37 minutes. It is 35 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the 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 5 hours and 53 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 10 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠135.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠135.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠163.9°.
Moon before apogee
10 days after point of apogee on 4 January 2090 at 23:25 in ♒ Aquarius. 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 17 January 2090 at 04:55 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 367 757 km
The Moon is 367 757 km (228 514 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 708 km (222 891 mi).
Moon before ascending node
7 days after descending node on 7 January 2090 at 17:09 in ♓ Pisces. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 20 January 2090 at 12:25 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
22 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
1 day since the previous standstill on 14 January 2090 at 07:41 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.390°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.339° at the point of next southern standstill on 27 January 2090 at 04:34 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy
The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
