Moon phase on 14 November 2016 Monday is Full Moon, 14 days old Moon is in Taurus.
Full Moon is the lunar phase on 14 November 2016, Monday . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 100%. The 14 days old Moon is in ♉ Taurus.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 14 November 2016 at 13:52 UTC.
Lunar disc appears visually 1.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1940".
The Full Moon this days is the Beaver of November 2016.
The Moon is 14 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 208 of Meeus index or 1161 from Brown series.
Moon is reaching point of perigee on this date at 11:23, this is 13 days after last apogee on 31 October 2016 at 19:29 in ♏ Scorpio. Lunar orbit is starting to get wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth for 13 days ahead, until it will get to the point of next apogee on 27 November 2016 at 20:08 in ♏ Scorpio.
This perigee Moon is 356 512 km (221 526 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's closest perigee of 2016. It is 5 996 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 87 km farther than the closest perigee of 21st century.
4 days after its descending node on 9 November 2016 at 15:57 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 7 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 22 November 2016 at 02:48 in ♍ Virgo.
9 days after previous South standstill on 4 November 2016 at 13:04 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-18.737°. Next 2 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠18.814° in the next northern standstill on 17 November 2016 at 09:32 in ♋ Cancer.