Waning
Gibbous ♏ Scorpio
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Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Full Moon 99% illuminated
Full Moon is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 99%. The 15 days old Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 20 April 2065 at 18:36 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 ♏ Scorpio
Moon is passing about ∠12° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1973"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1909".
It is Pink Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Pink of April 2065.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 27 April 2065 at 11:02
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 5 May 2065 at 11:30
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 13 May 2065 at 10:52
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 20 May 2065 at 02:05
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 807 / 1760
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 807 of Meeus index or 1760 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.69 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 29 minutes. It is 55 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 45 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 18 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠159.2°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠159.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠183°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 02:34. It is 13 days after previous apogee on 8 April 2065 at 00:30 in ♉ Taurus. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 13 days, until point of next apogee on 5 May 2065 at 03:19 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 356 951 km
This perigee Moon is 356 951 km (221 799 mi) away from Earth. It is 5 557 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 13 405 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon before ascending node
6 days after descending node on 14 April 2065 at 13:32 in ♋ Cancer. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 26 April 2065 at 23:17 in ♑ Capricorn.
Draconic month
21 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
10 days since the previous standstill on 11 April 2065 at 06:32 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.411°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠-26.324° at the point of next southern standstill on 24 April 2065 at 02:50 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.
