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 ♎ Libra.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 14 April 2052 at 02:29 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 ♎ Libra
Moon is passing about ∠18° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1784"
Lunar disc appears visually 7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1784" and ∠1913".
It is Pink Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Pink of April 2052.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 14 April 2052 at 02:29
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 22 April 2052 at 06:03
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 29 April 2052 at 03:20
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 5 May 2052 at 19:05
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 646 / 1599
The Moon is 14 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 646 of Meeus index or 1599 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.37 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 54 minutes. It is 1 hour and 25 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 50 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 19 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠335.6°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠335.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠352.1°.
Moon before perigee
12 days after point of perigee on 1 April 2052 at 05:25 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 16 April 2052 at 17:03 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 401 720 km
The Moon is 401 720 km (249 617 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 976 km (252 262 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♎ Libra at 05:26 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 13 days later on 27 April 2052 at 10:56 in ♈ Aries.
New draconic month
At 05:26 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon before southern standstill
8 days since the previous standstill on 4 April 2052 at 21:04 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.325°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.346° at the point of next southern standstill on 19 April 2052 at 06:22 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.
