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 17 March 2060 at 03:41 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 ∠1° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1770"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1770" and ∠1928".
It is Worm Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Worm of March 2060.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 25 March 2060 at 07:08
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 1 April 2060 at 01:37
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 7 April 2060 at 19:42
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 15 April 2060 at 21:21
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 744 / 1697
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 744 of Meeus index or 1697 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.39 days
Length of current 744 lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 26 minutes. It is 53 minutes longer than next lunation 745 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 3 hours and 18 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 51 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠342.5°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠342.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠358.2°. 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
13 days after point of perigee on 3 March 2060 at 16:59 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next day, until it get to the point of next apogee on 18 March 2060 at 18:59 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 404 971 km
Moon is 404 971 km (251 637 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next day until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 197 km (252 399 mi).
Moon before descending node
11 days after its ascending node on 6 March 2060 at 11:03 in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 3 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 20 March 2060 at 15:22 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
11 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
6 days after previous North standstill on 10 March 2060 at 14:36 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠27.537°. Next 7 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-27.644° in the next southern standstill on 25 March 2060 at 08:59 in ♑ Capricorn.
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.