Waning
Gibbous ♋ Cancer
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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 ♋ Cancer.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 25 December 2091 at 21:59 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 ∠12° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1811"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1811" and ∠1951".
It is Cold Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Cold of December 2091.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 2 January 2092 at 09:07
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 9 January 2092 at 01:37
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 16 January 2092 at 14:08
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 24 January 2092 at 14:55
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 1137 / 2090
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 1137 of Meeus index or 2090 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.49 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 43 minutes. It is 1 hour and 43 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 1 minute shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 8 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠20.8°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠20.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠40.9°.
Moon after apogee
5 days after point of apogee on 21 December 2091 at 10:59 in ♉ Taurus. 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 6 January 2092 at 12:22 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 395 734 km
The Moon is 395 734 km (245 898 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 11 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 364 495 km (226 487 mi).
Moon before ascending node
11 days after descending node on 15 December 2091 at 07:03 in ♒ Aquarius. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 29 December 2091 at 20:00 in ♌ Leo.
Draconic month
23 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♌ Leo, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon at northern standstill
At 05:43 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠19.486°. This is the year's northernmost lunar standstill of 2091. Over the next 12 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-19.466° at the point of next standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 8 January 2092 at 08:40.
Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy
The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
