Waning
Gibbous ♏ Scorpio
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Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Full Moon 99% illuminated
Full Moon is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 99%. The 15 days old Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 13 April 2006 at 16:40 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 is entering ♏ Scorpio
Moon is passing first ∠4° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1810"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1810" and ∠1913".
It is Pink Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Pink of April 2006.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 21 April 2006 at 03:28
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 27 April 2006 at 19:44
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 5 May 2006 at 05:13
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 13 May 2006 at 06:51
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 77 / 1030
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 77 of Meeus index or 1030 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.4 days
Length of current 77 lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 29 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2006. It is 13 minutes shorter than next lunation 78 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 3 hours and 15 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 54 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠19°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠19°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠38.4°. 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
4 days after point of apogee on 9 April 2006 at 13:16 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 10 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 25 April 2006 at 10:38 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 396 074 km
Moon is 396 074 km (246 109 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 10 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 363 737 km (226 016 mi).
Moon after descending node
2 days after its descending node on 12 April 2006 at 02:35 in ♎ Libra, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 11 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 25 April 2006 at 12:59 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
16 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
10 days after previous North standstill on 4 April 2006 at 07:35 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠28.715°. Next 4 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-28.668° in the next southern standstill on 18 April 2006 at 22:27 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.