Full Moon on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 100%. The lunar cycle is 15 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 19 December 2097 at 00:04 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 about ∠5° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
The Full Moon these days is the Cold of December 2097.
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 1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1970" and ∠1950".
The Moon is 15 days old and navigating through the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1211 of Meeus index or 2164 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 6 minutes and it is 16 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest 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 and 22 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 41 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠145.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠172.3°.
Moon is at perigee at 17:43 about 12 days since last apogee on 7 December 2097 at 05:05 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 14 days until point of next apogee on 3 January 2098 at 11:59 in ♑ Capricorn.
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 further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
4 days after ascending node on 15 December 2097 at 04:28 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 8 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 27 December 2097 at 16:48 in ♎ Libra.
At 11:51 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠27.860°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-27.839° at the point of next southern standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 1 January 2098 at 23:06.
4 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first 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
