Waning
Gibbous ♍ Virgo
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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 ♌ Leo.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 11 February 2017 at 00:33 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 ♌ Leo
Moon is leaving the last ∠1° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♍ Virgo later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1872"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1872" and ∠1944".
It is Snow Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Snow of February 2017.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 18 February 2017 at 19:33
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 26 February 2017 at 14:58
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 5 March 2017 at 11:32
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 12 March 2017 at 14:54
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 211 / 1164
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 211 of Meeus index or 1164 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.62 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 51 minutes. It is 2 hours and 52 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 7 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 56 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠259.5°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠259.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠295°.
Moon after perigee
4 days after point of perigee on 6 February 2017 at 13:59 in ♊ Gemini. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 18 February 2017 at 21:14 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 382 821 km
The Moon is 382 821 km (237 874 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 7 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 376 km (251 268 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♌ Leo at 19:49 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 14 days later on 26 February 2017 at 06:28 in ♓ Pisces.
New draconic month
At 19:49 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon after northern standstill
3 days since the previous standstill on 7 February 2017 at 18:34 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.865°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.848° at the point of next southern standstill on 21 February 2017 at 20:50 in ♑ Capricorn.
Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy
The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
