Waning
Gibbous ♎ Libra
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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 5 March 2015 at 18:06 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 ∠24° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1770"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1770" and ∠1934".
It is Worm Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Worm of March 2015.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 13 March 2015 at 17:48
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 20 March 2015 at 09:36
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 27 March 2015 at 07:43
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 4 April 2015 at 12:06
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 187 / 1140
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 187 of Meeus index or 1140 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.41 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 49 minutes. It is 28 minutes longer 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 55 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 14 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠354.5°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠354.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠9.9°.
Moon after apogee
1 day after point of apogee on 5 March 2015 at 07:35 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 13 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 19 March 2015 at 19:38 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 404 979 km
The Moon is 404 979 km (251 642 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 13 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 584 km (222 192 mi).
Moon before ascending node
12 days after descending node on 21 February 2015 at 16:05 in ♈ Aries. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 7 March 2015 at 21:04 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
25 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
7 days since the previous standstill on 27 February 2015 at 07:19 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.335°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.262° at the point of next southern standstill on 14 March 2015 at 01:39 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy
The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
