Waning
Gibbous ♎ Libra
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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 ♍ Virgo.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 12 March 2036 at 09:09 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 ♍ Virgo
Moon is passing about ∠24° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1925"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1925" and ∠1930".
It is Worm Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Worm of March 2036.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 19 March 2036 at 18:39
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 27 March 2036 at 20:57
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 4 April 2036 at 00:03
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 10 April 2036 at 20:22
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 447 / 1400
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 447 of Meeus index or 1400 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.66 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 57 minutes. It is 3 hours and 21 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 13 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 50 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠223.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠223.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠258.5°.
Moon after perigee
2 days after point of perigee on 10 March 2036 at 02:38 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 21 March 2036 at 21:41 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 372 276 km
The Moon is 372 276 km (231 322 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 9 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 752 km (251 501 mi).
Moon after ascending node
1 day after ascending node on 10 March 2036 at 13:58 in ♌ Leo. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 24 March 2036 at 11:54 in ♒ Aquarius.
Draconic month
1 day since the beginning of current draconic month in ♌ Leo, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
5 days since the previous standstill on 7 March 2036 at 07:25 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.281°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.336° at the point of next southern standstill on 20 March 2036 at 12:11 in ♑ Capricorn.
Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy
The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
