Full
Moon ♏ Scorpio
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 ♏ Scorpio.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 27 April 2059 at 19:17 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 ♏ Scorpio
Moon is passing first ∠4° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1813"
Lunar disc appears visually 5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1813" and ∠1906".
It is Pink Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Pink of April 2059.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 5 May 2059 at 01:29
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 11 May 2059 at 19:15
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 19 May 2059 at 10:22
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 27 May 2059 at 08:04
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 733 / 1686
The Moon is 14 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 733 of Meeus index or 1686 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.41 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 47 minutes. It is 55 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 58 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 12 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠30°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠30°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠53.2°.
Moon after apogee
4 days after point of apogee on 22 April 2059 at 12:03 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 8 May 2059 at 06:41 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 395 336 km
The Moon is 395 336 km (245 650 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 366 831 km (227 938 mi).
Moon before descending node
12 days after ascending node on 14 April 2059 at 19:11 in ♉ Taurus. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 29 April 2059 at 07:01 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
12 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
9 days since the previous standstill on 17 April 2059 at 23:41 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.607°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-26.654° at the point of next southern standstill on 2 May 2059 at 11:32 in ♑ Capricorn.
Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy
The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
