Waning
Gibbous ♍ Virgo
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Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Full Moon 100% illuminated
Full Moon is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 100%. The 15 days old Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 27 February 2002 at 09:17 UTC.
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Moon phase and lunation details
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.
Moon in ♍ Virgo
Moon is passing about ∠10° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1971"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1971" and ∠1937".
It is Snow Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Snow of February 2002.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 6 March 2002 at 01:25
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 14 March 2002 at 02:03
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 22 March 2002 at 02:28
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 28 March 2002 at 18:25
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 26 / 979
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 26 of Meeus index or 979 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.77 days
Length of current 26 lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 22 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2002. It is 1 hour and 3 minutes longer than next lunation 27 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 5 hours and 38 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 25 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠155.3°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠155.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠180.3°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon in perigee
Moon is reaching point of perigee on this date at 19:47, this is 12 days after last apogee on 14 February 2002 at 22:22 in ♓ Pisces. Lunar orbit is starting to get wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth for 14 days ahead, until it will get to the point of next apogee on 14 March 2002 at 01:09 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 356 898 km
This perigee Moon is 356 898 km (221 766 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's closest perigee of 2002. It is 5 610 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 473 km farther than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon after ascending node
5 days after its ascending node on 22 February 2002 at 06:26 in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 7 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 6 March 2002 at 16:19 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
5 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
4 days after previous North standstill on 23 February 2002 at 11:48 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠24.418°. Next 8 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-24.510° in the next southern standstill on 8 March 2002 at 01:59 in ♑ Capricorn.
Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy
The Moon is in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun on this date and this alignment forms Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.