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 14 days old Moon is in ♎ Libra.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 4 April 2015 at 12:06 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 ♎ Libra
Moon is passing about ∠14° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1781"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1781" and ∠1918".
It is Pink Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Pink of April 2015.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 12 April 2015 at 03:44
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 18 April 2015 at 18:57
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 25 April 2015 at 23:55
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 4 May 2015 at 03:42
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 188 / 1141
The Moon is 14 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 188 of Meeus index or 1141 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.39 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 21 minutes. It is 5 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 3 hours and 23 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 46 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠9.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠9.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠27.1°.
Moon after apogee
2 days after point of apogee on 1 April 2015 at 12:59 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 17 April 2015 at 03:53 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 402 435 km
The Moon is 402 435 km (250 062 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 12 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 361 026 km (224 331 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♎ Libra at 03:17 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 13 days later on 17 April 2015 at 13:07 in ♈ Aries.
New draconic month
At 03:17 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon before southern standstill
8 days since the previous standstill on 26 March 2015 at 14:29 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.241°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.250° at the point of next southern standstill on 10 April 2015 at 07:46 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.
