Full
Moon ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
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 ♍ Virgo.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 22 February 2016 at 18:20 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 ♍ Virgo
Moon is passing first ∠0° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1804"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1804" and ∠1940".
It is Snow Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Snow of February 2016.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 1 March 2016 at 23:11
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 9 March 2016 at 01:54
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 15 March 2016 at 17:03
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 23 March 2016 at 12:01
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 199 / 1152
The Moon is 14 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 199 of Meeus index or 1152 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.47 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 16 minutes. It is 1 hour and 47 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 28 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 41 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠319.8°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠319.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠339.5°.
Moon before perigee
11 days after point of perigee on 11 February 2016 at 02:42 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 27 February 2016 at 03:28 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 397 284 km
The Moon is 397 284 km (246 861 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 4 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 383 km (251 893 mi).
Moon before ascending node
11 days after descending node on 10 February 2016 at 20:46 in ♓ Pisces. 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 24 February 2016 at 06:10 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
25 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
4 days since the previous standstill on 17 February 2016 at 23:18 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.254°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.210° at the point of next southern standstill on 3 March 2016 at 14:19 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.
