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 ♎ Libra.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 22 March 2046 at 09:27 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 is entering ♎ Libra
Moon is passing first ∠4° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1967"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1967" and ∠1925".
It is Worm Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Worm of March 2046.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 29 March 2046 at 06:57
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 6 April 2046 at 11:52
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 14 April 2046 at 03:21
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 20 April 2046 at 18:21
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 571 / 1524
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 571 of Meeus index or 1524 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.73 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 36 minutes. It is 2 hours and 32 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 4 hours and 52 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 11 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠184.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠184.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠209.1°.
Moon after perigee
1 day after point of perigee on 21 March 2046 at 18:59 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 3 April 2046 at 12:45 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 364 341 km
The Moon is 364 341 km (226 391 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 12 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 176 km (252 386 mi).
Moon after descending node
3 days after descending node on 19 March 2046 at 03:00 in ♌ Leo. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 9 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 1 April 2046 at 00:32 in ♒ Aquarius.
Draconic month
17 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
6 days since the previous standstill on 15 March 2046 at 12:23 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.160°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.076° at the point of next southern standstill on 28 March 2046 at 00:39 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.
