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 20 April 2027 at 22:27 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 ∠8° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1846"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1846" and ∠1909".
It is Pink Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Pink of April 2027.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 28 April 2027 at 20:18
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 6 May 2027 at 10:58
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 13 May 2027 at 04:44
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 20 May 2027 at 10:59
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 337 / 1290
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 337 of Meeus index or 1290 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.46 days
Length of current 337 lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 7 minutes. It is 2 hours and 25 minutes longer than next lunation 338 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 37 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 32 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠278.5°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠278.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠308.6°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon before apogee
7 days after point of perigee on 14 April 2027 at 00:41 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 6 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 27 April 2027 at 21:21 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 388 218 km
Moon is 388 218 km (241 227 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 6 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 170 km (251 140 mi).
Moon after descending node
5 days after its descending node on 15 April 2027 at 16:31 in ♌ Leo, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 8 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 29 April 2027 at 13:24 in ♒ Aquarius.
Draconic month
19 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
9 days after previous North standstill on 11 April 2027 at 19:29 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠27.412°. Next 3 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-27.312° in the next southern standstill on 25 April 2027 at 01:45 in ♐ Sagittarius.
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.