Waning
Gibbous ♏ Scorpio
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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 ♏ Scorpio.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 27 April 2002 at 03:00 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 ♏ Scorpio
Moon is passing about ∠12° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1945"
Lunar disc appears visually 2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1945" and ∠1906".
It is Pink Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Pink of April 2002.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 4 May 2002 at 07:16
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 12 May 2002 at 10:45
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 19 May 2002 at 19:42
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 26 May 2002 at 11:51
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 28 / 981
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 28 of Meeus index or 981 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.64 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 24 minutes. It is 2 hours and 23 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the 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 2 hours and 40 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 23 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠204.7°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠204.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠233.6°.
Moon after perigee
1 day after point of perigee on 25 April 2002 at 16:25 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 10 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 7 May 2002 at 19:15 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 368 620 km
The Moon is 368 620 km (229 050 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 483 km (251 955 mi).
Moon before descending node
10 days after ascending node on 17 April 2002 at 09:15 in ♊ Gemini. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 2 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 30 April 2002 at 00:29 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
10 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
8 days since the previous standstill on 19 April 2002 at 02:11 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠24.908°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-24.975° at the point of next southern standstill on 1 May 2002 at 16:55 in ♑ Capricorn.
Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy
The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
