Full
Moon ♎ Libra
Moon phase for
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 ♍ Virgo.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 13 March 2044 at 19:41 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 ∠20° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1875"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1875" and ∠1930".
It is Worm Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Worm of March 2044.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 21 March 2044 at 16:52
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 29 March 2044 at 09:26
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 5 April 2044 at 03:45
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 12 April 2044 at 09:39
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 546 / 1499
The Moon is 14 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 546 of Meeus index or 1499 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.55 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 14 minutes. It is 2 hours and 58 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 30 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 33 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠272.5°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠272.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠304.8°.
Moon after perigee
5 days after point of perigee on 7 March 2044 at 20:36 in ♊ Gemini. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 21 March 2044 at 01:56 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 382 356 km
The Moon is 382 356 km (237 585 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 7 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 337 km (251 243 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♍ Virgo at 13:10 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 14 days later on 27 March 2044 at 23:51 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
12 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
5 days since the previous standstill on 7 March 2044 at 16:53 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.650°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.641° at the point of next southern standstill on 21 March 2044 at 10:24 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.
