Full
Moon* ♎ Libra
Moon phase for
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 14 days old Moon is in ♎ Libra.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 8 April 2020 at 02:35 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 ∠9° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1973"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1916".
It is Pink Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Pink of April 2020.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 8 April 2020 at 02:35
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 14 April 2020 at 22:56
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 23 April 2020 at 02:26
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 30 April 2020 at 20:38
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 250 / 1203
The Moon is 14 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 250 of Meeus index or 1203 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.71 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 58 minutes. It is 1 hour and 45 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 4 hours and 14 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 49 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠177.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠177.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠201.8°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 18:08. It is 14 days after previous apogee on 24 March 2020 at 15:23 in ♈ Aries. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 13 days, until point of next apogee on 20 April 2020 at 19:01 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 356 909 km
This perigee Moon is 356 909 km (221 773 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's closest perigee of 2020. It is 5 599 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 484 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon before descending node
6 days after ascending node on 31 March 2020 at 16:51 in ♊ Gemini. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 5 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 13 April 2020 at 02:58 in ♑ Capricorn.
Draconic month
6 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
6 days since the previous standstill on 1 April 2020 at 09:12 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠23.702°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-23.805° at the point of next southern standstill on 13 April 2020 at 21:03 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.
