Moon is passing about ∠13° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Pink Moon after 22 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2002 after 22 days on 27 April 2002 at 03:00.
Moderate tide
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1840"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1840" and ∠1918".
Lunation 27 / 980
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 27 of Meeus index or 980 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 19 minutes and it is 1 hour and 55 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. 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 4 hours and 35 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 28 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠180.3°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠180.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠204.7°.
Moon before apogee
7 days since point of perigee on 28 March 2002 at 07:42 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 10 April 2002 at 05:32 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 389 585 km(242 077 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 5 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 409 km(252 531 mi).
Moon after descending node
1 day after descending node on 2 April 2002 at 18:20 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 17 April 2002 at 09:15 in ♊ Gemini.
At 08:23 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-24.771°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠24.908° at the point of next northern standstill in ♋ Cancer on 19 April 2002 at 02:11.
In 8 days on 12 April 2002 at 19:21 in ♈ Aries the Moon is going to be in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.