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 ♎ Libra.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 6 April 2069 at 16:13 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 leaving the last ∠3° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♏ Scorpio later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1916".
It is Pink Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Pink of April 2069.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 14 April 2069 at 17:21
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 21 April 2069 at 09:58
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 28 April 2069 at 05:56
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 6 May 2069 at 09:11
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 856 / 1809
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 856 of Meeus index or 1809 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.36 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 45 minutes. It is 38 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 3 hours and 59 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 10 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠349.7°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠349.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠4.9°.
Moon at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 02:44. It is 14 days after previous perigee on 23 March 2069 at 15:45 in ♈ Aries. Lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the next 13 days, until point of next perigee on 21 April 2069 at 02:57 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 406 308 km
This apogee Moon is 406 308 km (252 468 mi) away from Earth. It is 900 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 401 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon before ascending node
12 days after descending node on 25 March 2069 at 18:54 in ♉ Taurus. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 8 April 2069 at 21:44 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
25 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, 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 28 March 2069 at 06:45 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠20.006°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.933° at the point of next southern standstill on 11 April 2069 at 22:06 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.
