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 15 March 2052 at 09:54 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 leaving the last ∠3° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♎ Libra later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1806"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1806" and ∠1929".
It is Worm Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Worm of March 2052.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 23 March 2052 at 14:09
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 30 March 2052 at 18:27
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 6 April 2052 at 09:28
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 14 April 2052 at 02:29
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 645 / 1598
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 645 of Meeus index or 1598 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.45 days
Length of current 645 lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 51 minutes. It is 1 hour and 57 minutes longer than next lunation 646 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 53 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 16 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠314.8°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠314.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠335.6°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon before apogee
11 days after point of perigee on 4 March 2052 at 04:33 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 4 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 20 March 2052 at 04:36 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 396 932 km
Moon is 396 932 km (246 642 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 4 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 405 152 km (251 750 mi).
Moon before ascending node
11 days after its descending node on 3 March 2052 at 14:47 in ♈ Aries, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next day, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 16 March 2052 at 22:32 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
25 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
6 days after previous North standstill on 8 March 2052 at 14:56 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠18.384°. Next 7 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-18.333° in the next southern standstill on 22 March 2052 at 23:15 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.