Waning
Gibbous ♍ Virgo
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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 14 days old Moon is in ♌ Leo.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 19 February 2038 at 16:09 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 ♌ Leo
Moon is leaving the last ∠1° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♍ Virgo later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1941"
Lunar disc appears visually 0% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1941" and ∠1941".
It is Snow Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Snow of February 2038.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 26 February 2038 at 06:56
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 5 March 2038 at 23:15
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 14 March 2038 at 03:42
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 21 March 2038 at 02:09
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 471 / 1424
The Moon is 14 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 471 of Meeus index or 1424 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.72 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 23 minutes. It is 5 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 39 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 24 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠117.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠117.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠149.9°.
Moon before apogee
10 days after point of apogee on 9 February 2038 at 10:00 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 21 February 2038 at 08:05 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 369 283 km
The Moon is 369 283 km (229 462 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 360 960 km (224 290 mi).
Moon after ascending node
2 days after ascending node on 16 February 2038 at 17:30 in ♋ Cancer. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 9 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 1 March 2038 at 08:52 in ♑ Capricorn.
Draconic month
2 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
3 days since the previous standstill on 16 February 2038 at 04:53 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠22.250°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠-22.311° at the point of next southern standstill on 28 February 2038 at 20:34 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.
