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Moon ♏ Scorpio
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 ♎ Libra.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 15 April 2060 at 21:21 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 ∠22° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1912".
It is Pink Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Pink of April 2060.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 23 April 2060 at 18:53
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 30 April 2060 at 10:11
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 7 May 2060 at 09:19
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 15 May 2060 at 13:39
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 745 / 1698
The Moon is 14 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 745 of Meeus index or 1698 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.36 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 33 minutes. It is 20 minutes longer 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 4 hours and 11 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 58 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠358.2°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠358.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠13.7°.
Moon after apogee
1 day after point of apogee on 14 April 2060 at 20:02 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 14 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 29 April 2060 at 14:53 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 405 407 km
The Moon is 405 407 km (251 908 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 14 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 297 km (222 635 mi).
Moon before descending node
12 days after ascending node on 2 April 2060 at 19:04 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 16 April 2060 at 20:33 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
8 days since the previous standstill on 6 April 2060 at 21:10 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.697°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.732° at the point of next southern standstill on 21 April 2060 at 15:27 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.
