Waning
Gibbous ♎ Libra
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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 15 days old Moon is in ♎ Libra.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 19 March 2030 at 17:56 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 ∠10° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1945"
Lunar disc appears visually 1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1945" and ∠1926".
It is Worm Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Worm of March 2030.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 26 March 2030 at 09:51
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 2 April 2030 at 22:02
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 11 April 2030 at 02:57
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 18 April 2030 at 03:20
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 373 / 1326
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 373 of Meeus index or 1326 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.64 days
Length of current 373 lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 28 minutes. It is 42 minutes shorter than next lunation 374 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 44 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 19 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠104.1°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠104.1°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠139°. 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 before perigee
10 days after point of apogee on 10 March 2030 at 02:23 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next day, until it get to the point of next perigee on 21 March 2030 at 22:00 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 368 478 km
Moon is 368 478 km (228 962 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next day until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 362 974 km (225 542 mi).
Moon before ascending node
8 days after its descending node on 12 March 2030 at 06:43 in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 4 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 25 March 2030 at 05:48 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
22 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
8 days after previous North standstill on 12 March 2030 at 01:51 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠23.130°. Next 4 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-23.011° in the next southern standstill on 25 March 2030 at 03:57 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.