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

Full Moon in Virgo

Full Moon on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 99%. The lunar cycle is 15 days old.

* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 28 February 2086 at 12:21 UTC.

Moonrise and moonset

The moon rises at sunset and sets at sunrise. It is visible all night and it is high in the sky around midnight.

Moon phases on nearby dates

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Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♍ Virgo

Moon is passing about ∠22° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.

It is Worm Moon

The Full Moon these days is the Worm of March 2086.

Super spring tide

There is extremely high Full Moon ocean tide on this date. Combined Sun and Moon gravitational tidal force working on Earth is heavy, because of the Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment and the near perigee.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"

Lunar disc appears visually 9.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1936".

Lunation 1065 / 2018

The Moon is 15 days old and navigating through the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1065 of Meeus index or 2018 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.4 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 37 minutes and it is 48 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).

Lunation length shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 7 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 2 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠347°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠347° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠2.3°.

Moon at apogee

Moon is at apogee at 10:54 about 14 days since last perigee on 14 February 2086 at 16:44 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 13 days until point of next perigee on 15 March 2086 at 04:46 in ♓ Pisces.

Distance to Moon 406 459 km

This apogee Moon is 406 459 km (252 562 mi) away from Earth. It is 1 051 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 250 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.

Moon before ascending node

7 days after descending node on 21 February 2086 at 21:51 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 8 March 2086 at 13:24 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Moon before southern standstill

7 days since the last northern standstill on 21 February 2086 at 19:36 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠23.034° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠-22.874° at the point of next southern standstill on 8 March 2086 at 14:49 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

20 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius 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