The Moon’s month-to-month orbit across the Earth
will carry it to its furthest level from the Solar –
its aphelion – at a distance of
0.9915 AU from the Solar.

This occurs at across the time when the Moon’s orbit carries it across the
far facet of the Earth as seen from the Solar, at across the similar time that it
passes full moon.

In the mean time of the Moon’s aphelion, the Earth will lie at a
distance of
0.9893 AU from the Solar, and the Moon will lie at a distance of 0.9915 AU from the Solar.

This distance between the Earth and Moon can be 0.0024 AU (360,000 km).

The positions of the Solar and Moon within the sky can be:

The coordinates above are given in J2000.0.

The sky
on 13 Nov 2024

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The circumstances of this occasion have been computed utilizing the DE430 planetary ephemeris printed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).

This occasion was robotically generated by looking out the ephemeris for planetary alignments that are of curiosity to beginner astronomers, and the textual content above was generated primarily based on an estimate of your location.

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Simulated picture courtesy of Tom Ruen.