Full
Moon ♎ Libra
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Full Moon 100% illuminated
Full Moon is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 100%. The 14 days old Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 14 March 2006 at 23:35 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 ∠19° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1770"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1770" and ∠1930".
It is Worm Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Worm of March 2006.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 22 March 2006 at 19:10
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 29 March 2006 at 10:15
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 5 April 2006 at 12:01
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 13 April 2006 at 16:40
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 76 / 1029
The Moon is 14 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 76 of Meeus index or 1029 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.41 days
Length of current 76 lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 44 minutes. It is 15 minutes longer than next lunation 77 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 3 hours shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours and 9 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠2.9°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠2.9°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠19°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon after apogee
1 day after point of apogee on 13 March 2006 at 01:44 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 13 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 28 March 2006 at 07:13 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 404 944 km
Moon is 404 944 km (251 621 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 13 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 359 170 km (223 178 mi).
Moon before descending node
12 days after its ascending node on 1 March 2006 at 16:25 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next day, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 15 March 2006 at 19:52 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
12 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
6 days after previous North standstill on 8 March 2006 at 00:05 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠28.694°. Next 8 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-28.725° in the next southern standstill on 22 March 2006 at 16:53 in ♐ Sagittarius.
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.