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 14 days old Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 27 December 2099 at 12:58 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 ∠1859"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1859" and ∠1951".
It is Cold Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Cold of December 2099.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 3 January 2100 at 13:03
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 10 January 2100 at 12:55
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 18 January 2100 at 12:34
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 26 January 2100 at 02:49
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 1236 / 2189
The Moon is 14 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 1236 of Meeus index or 2189 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.57 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 47 minutes. It is 2 hours and 12 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 3 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠49.8°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠49.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠81.3°.
Moon before apogee
6 days after point of apogee on 20 December 2099 at 13:16 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 3 January 2100 at 08:57 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 385 634 km
The Moon is 385 634 km (239 622 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 370 356 km (230 129 mi).
Moon before descending node
8 days after ascending node on 19 December 2099 at 01:02 in ♓ Pisces. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 5 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 1 January 2100 at 21:13 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
8 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
1 day since the previous standstill on 26 December 2099 at 23:34 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.345°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.379° at the point of next southern standstill on 8 January 2100 at 21:59 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy
The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
