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 19 December 2097 at 00:04 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 ∠5° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1970"
Lunar disc appears visually 1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1970" and ∠1950".
It is Cold Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Cold of December 2097.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 25 December 2097 at 15:20
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 2 January 2098 at 14:32
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 10 January 2098 at 16:58
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 17 January 2098 at 10:36
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 1211 / 2164
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 1211 of Meeus index or 2164 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.8 days
Length of current 1211 lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 6 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2097. It is 16 minutes shorter than next lunation 1212 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 6 hours and 22 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 41 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠145.6°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠145.6°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠172.3°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon in perigee
Moon is reaching point of perigee on this date at 17:43, this is 12 days after last apogee on 7 December 2097 at 05:05 in ♑ Capricorn. Lunar orbit is starting to get wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth for 14 days ahead, until it will get to the point of next apogee on 3 January 2098 at 11:59 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 357 517 km
This perigee Moon is 357 517 km (222 151 mi) away from Earth. It is 4 991 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 12 839 km farther than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon after ascending node
4 days after its ascending node on 15 December 2097 at 04:28 in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 8 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 27 December 2097 at 16:48 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
4 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon in northern standstill
At 11:51 on this date the Moon is meeting its North standstill point, when it will reach northern declination of ∠27.860°. Next 13 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite southward direction to face South declination of ∠-27.839° in its southern standstill point on 1 January 2098 at 23:06 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy
The Moon is in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun on this date and this alignment forms Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.