Full Moon
Full MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Full Moon in Virgo

Full Moon on . Illuminated surface of the Moon is 100%. Lunar cycle is 15 days old.

* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 3 March 2064 at 08:19 UTC.

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.

Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♍ Virgo

Moon is passing about ∠16° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.

It is Worm Moon

The Full Moon these days is the Worm of March 2064.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1972"

Lunar disc appears visually 1.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1935".

Lunation 793 / 1746

The Moon is 15 days old and navigating through the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 793 of Meeus index or 1746 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.78 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 42 minutes and it is 1 hour and 25 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2064. 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°).

Lunation length longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 58 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 5 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠156.8°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠156.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠181.6°.

Moon at perigee

Moon is at perigee at 17:31 about 12 days since last apogee on 19 February 2064 at 18:41 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 14 days until point of next apogee on 17 March 2064 at 21:10 in ♓ Pisces.

Distance to Moon 356 969 km

This perigee Moon is 356 969 km (221 810 mi) away from Earth. It is 5 539 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 13 387 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.

Moon after descending node

1 day after descending node on 2 March 2064 at 02:40 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 15 March 2064 at 05:39 in ♒ Aquarius.

Moon after northern standstill

5 days since the last northern standstill on 26 February 2064 at 20:13 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.859° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.823° at the point of next southern standstill on 10 March 2064 at 08:07 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

15 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy

The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

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