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 28 April 2029 at 10:37 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 ∠9° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1965"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1965" and ∠1905".
It is Pink Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Pink of April 2029.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 5 May 2029 at 09:48
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 13 May 2029 at 13:42
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 21 May 2029 at 04:16
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 27 May 2029 at 18:37
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 362 / 1315
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 362 of Meeus index or 1315 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.67 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 2 minutes. It is 1 hour and 54 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 3 hours and 18 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 45 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠188.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠188.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠213.4°.
Moon after perigee
1 day after point of perigee on 27 April 2029 at 16:24 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 10 May 2029 at 07:00 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 364 702 km
The Moon is 364 702 km (226 615 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 125 km (252 354 mi).
Moon before ascending node
8 days after descending node on 19 April 2029 at 21:27 in ♋ Cancer. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 2 May 2029 at 09:41 in ♑ Capricorn.
Draconic month
23 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
10 days since the previous standstill on 18 April 2029 at 10:56 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠24.526°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠-24.466° at the point of next southern standstill on 1 May 2029 at 04:13 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.
