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 16 February 2003 at 23:51 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 ∠5° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1928"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1928" and ∠1942".
It is Snow Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Snow of February 2003.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 23 February 2003 at 16:46
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 3 March 2003 at 02:35
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 11 March 2003 at 07:15
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 18 March 2003 at 10:34
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 38 / 991
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 38 of Meeus index or 991 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.66 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 47 minutes. It is 57 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 3 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠90.6°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠90.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠127.8°.
Moon before apogee
9 days after point of apogee on 7 February 2003 at 21:58 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 19 February 2003 at 16:19 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 371 772 km
The Moon is 371 772 km (231 008 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 364 844 km (226 704 mi).
Moon before descending node
6 days after ascending node on 10 February 2003 at 17:39 in ♉ Taurus. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 6 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 23 February 2003 at 15:47 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
6 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
4 days since the previous standstill on 13 February 2003 at 10:59 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠25.923°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-26.015° at the point of next southern standstill on 26 February 2003 at 05:53 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.
