Full
Moon* ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
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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 12 March 2047 at 01:37 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 ∠13° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1948"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1948" and ∠1931".
It is Worm Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Worm of March 2047.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 12 March 2047 at 01:37
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 18 March 2047 at 16:11
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 26 March 2047 at 11:44
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 3 April 2047 at 15:11
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 583 / 1536
The Moon is 14 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 583 of Meeus index or 1536 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.72 days
Length of current 583 lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 18 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2047. It is 22 minutes longer than next lunation 584 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 34 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 29 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠133°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠133°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠161.9°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon before perigee
10 days after point of apogee on 1 March 2047 at 00:38 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next day, until it get to the point of next perigee on 13 March 2047 at 05:32 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 367 883 km
Moon is 367 883 km (228 592 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next day until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 359 039 km (223 096 mi).
Moon after descending node
3 days after its descending node on 8 March 2047 at 01:12 in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 9 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 20 March 2047 at 13:43 in ♑ Capricorn.
Draconic month
18 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
6 days after previous North standstill on 5 March 2047 at 11:00 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠25.881°. Next 6 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-25.782° in the next southern standstill on 18 March 2047 at 02:57 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy
The Moon is in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun on this date and this alignment forms Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.