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 January 2093 at 17:43 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 passing first ∠2° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
The Full Moon these days is the Wolf of January 2093.
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 8.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1784" and ∠1951".
The Moon is 15 days old and navigating through the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1150 of Meeus index or 2103 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 12 minutes and it is 31 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 1 hour and 32 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 37 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 ∠6.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠22.9°.
3 days since point of apogee on 10 January 2093 at 05:43 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 25 January 2093 at 18:37 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 401 759 km (249 641 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 12 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 359 956 km (223 666 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♋ Cancer at 16:59 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next descending node later on 26 January 2093 at 22:34 in ♑ Capricorn.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 11 January 2093 at 17:53 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠20.841° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠-20.833° at the point of next southern standstill on 25 January 2093 at 09:00 in ♑ Capricorn.
At 16:59 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.
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