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 24 June 2097 at 19:03 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 ∠1° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
The Full Moon these days is the Strawberry of June 2097.
There is extremely high Full Moon ocean tide on this date. Combined Sun and Moon gravitational tidal force working on Earth is heavy, because of the Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment and the near perigee.
Lunar disc appears visually 6.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1888".
The Moon is 14 days old and navigating through the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1205 of Meeus index or 2158 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 6 hours and 44 minutes and it is 18 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2097. 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 6 hours shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 9 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 ∠355.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠10°.
Moon is at apogee at 09:04 about 13 days since last perigee on 10 June 2097 at 09:12 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 14 days until point of next perigee on 8 July 2097 at 18:43 in ♋ Cancer.
This apogee Moon is 406 338 km (252 487 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's farthest apogee of 2097. It is 930 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 371 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
4 days after descending node on 20 June 2097 at 09:05 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 4 July 2097 at 19:44 in ♉ Taurus.
13 days since the last northern standstill on 11 June 2097 at 04:55 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.467° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-27.434° at the point of next southern standstill on 25 June 2097 at 00:31 in ♑ Capricorn.
16 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
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