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

Full Moon in Taurus

Full Moon on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 100%. The lunar cycle is 14 days old.

* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 11 November 2095 at 19:05 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 in ♉ Taurus

Moon is passing about ∠15° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.

It is Beaver Moon

The Full Moon these days is the Beaver of November 2095.

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 ∠1966"

Lunar disc appears visually 1.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1966" and ∠1939".

Lunation 1185 / 2138

The Moon is 14 days old and navigating through the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1185 of Meeus index or 2138 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.77 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 22 minutes and it is 52 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2095. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).

Lunation length longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 38 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 25 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠192.1°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠192.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠219.6°.

Moon after perigee

1 day since point of perigee on 10 November 2095 at 21:09 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 23 November 2095 at 06:05 in ♎ Libra.

Distance to Moon 364 605 km

The Moon is 364 605 km (226 555 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 873 km (252 198 mi).

Moon before ascending node

11 days after descending node on 31 October 2095 at 04:49 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 13 November 2095 at 03:43 in ♊ Gemini.

Moon before northern standstill

8 days since the last southern standstill on 2 November 2095 at 15:39 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-25.619° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠25.649° at the point of next northern standstill on 15 November 2095 at 06:31 in ♋ Cancer.

Draconic month

25 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the second to the final 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