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Moon is the lunar phase on 18 September 2024, Wednesday. Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 100%. The 15 days old Moon is in ♈ Aries. * The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 18 September 2024 at 02:34 UTC. Previous
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Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.Full Moon 100% illuminated
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Moon phase and lunation details
Moon rises at sunset and sets at sunrise. It is visible all night and it is high in the sky around midnight. Moon is
passing first ∠2° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector. Lunar disc appears visually 3.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1910". The Full Moon this days is the Harvest of September 2024.Moonrise and moonset
Moon is entering ♈ Aries
Apparent angular diameter ∠1972"
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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 305 / 1258
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 305 of Meeus index or 1258 from Brown series.
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Synodic month length 29.7 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 54 minutes. It is 1 hour and 4 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 4 hours and 10 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 53 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on 18 September 2024 Wednesday 12:00 UTC
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly
is ∠155.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠179.7°. Moon is at perigee at 13:26. It is 12 days after previous apogee on 5 September
2024 at 14:55 in ♎ Libra. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 14 days, until point of next apogee on 2 October 2024 at 19:40 in ♎ Libra. Previous apogeeNext apogee This
perigee Moon is 357 284 km (222 006 mi) away from Earth. It is 5 224 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 13 072 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.True anomaly ∠155.7°
Moon at perigee
Distance to Moon 357 284 km
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♓ Pisces at 19:51 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 13 days later on 2 October 2024 at 11:52 in ♎ Libra.
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New draconic month
At 19:51 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
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Moon before northern standstill
6 days since the previous standstill on 12 September 2024 at 04:51 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.671°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.695° at the point of next northern standstill on 24 September 2024 at 17:04 in ♊ Gemini.
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Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy
The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
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