Waning
Gibbous ♏ Scorpio
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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 ♏ Scorpio.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 27 April 2021 at 03:31 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 ♏ Scorpio
Moon is passing about ∠12° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1972"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1906".
It is Pink Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Pink of April 2021.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 3 May 2021 at 19:50
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 11 May 2021 at 19:00
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 19 May 2021 at 19:13
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 26 May 2021 at 11:14
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 263 / 1216
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 263 of Meeus index or 1216 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.69 days
Length of current 263 lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 29 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2021. It is 36 minutes longer than next lunation 264 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 3 hours and 45 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours and 18 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠154.8°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠154.8°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠178.9°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon in perigee
Moon is reaching point of perigee on this date at 15:24, this is 12 days after last apogee on 14 April 2021 at 17:47 in ♉ Taurus. Lunar orbit is starting to get wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth for 14 days ahead, until it will get to the point of next apogee on 11 May 2021 at 21:54 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 357 379 km
This perigee Moon is 357 379 km (222 065 mi) away from Earth. It is 5 129 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 12 977 km farther than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon before descending node
11 days after its ascending node on 16 April 2021 at 05:53 in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next day, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 29 April 2021 at 09:18 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
11 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
8 days after previous North standstill on 18 April 2021 at 16:02 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠25.532°. Next 3 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-25.591° in the next southern standstill on 1 May 2021 at 09:37 in ♑ Capricorn.
Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy
The Moon is in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun on this date and this alignment forms Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.