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 17 January 2098 at 10:36 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 leaving the last ∠1° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♌ Leo later.
The Full Moon these days is the Wolf of January 2098.
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 1.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1950".
The Moon is 15 days old and navigating through the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1212 of Meeus index or 2165 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 22 minutes and it is 1 hour and 14 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2098. 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°).
The length of the current synodic month is 6 hours and 38 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 25 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 ∠172.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠197°.
Moon is at perigee at 06:41 about 13 days since last apogee on 3 January 2098 at 11:59 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 13 days until point of next apogee on 30 January 2098 at 12:32 in ♑ Capricorn.
This perigee Moon is 356 435 km (221 478 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's closest perigee of 2098. It is 6 073 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 10 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
6 days after ascending node on 11 January 2098 at 08:24 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 23 January 2098 at 17:32 in ♎ Libra.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 15 January 2098 at 22:37 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.895° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.941° at the point of next southern standstill on 29 January 2098 at 04:12 in ♑ Capricorn.
6 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries 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