Full Moon on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 100%. The lunar cycle is 15 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 11 February 2036 at 22:09 UTC.
The moon rises at sunset and sets at sunrise. It is visible all night and it is high in the sky around midnight.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
The Full Moon these days is the Snow of February 2036.
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.
Lunar disc appears visually 0.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1951" and ∠1944".
The Moon is 15 days old and navigating through the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 446 of Meeus index or 1399 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 42 minutes and it is 2 hours and 45 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2036. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 58 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 5 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠195.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠223.9°.
1 day since point of perigee on 10 February 2036 at 20:55 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 23 February 2036 at 03:15 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 367 334 km (228 251 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 790 km (252 146 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♌ Leo at 03:38 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next descending node later on 26 February 2036 at 05:24 in ♒ Aquarius.
3 days since the last northern standstill on 8 February 2036 at 23:26 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.249° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.246° at the point of next southern standstill on 22 February 2036 at 04:47 in ♑ Capricorn.
At 03:38 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.
The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com
Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov