Full Moon on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 100%. The lunar cycle is 14 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 4 March 2072 at 15:17 UTC.
The moon rises at sunset and sets at sunrise. It is visible all night and it is high in the sky around midnight.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠13° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
The Full Moon these days is the Worm of March 2072.
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.
Lunar disc appears visually 1.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1965" and ∠1934".
The Moon is 14 days old and navigating through the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 892 of Meeus index or 1845 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 18 minutes and it is 2 hours and 43 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 34 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 29 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠190.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠217.4°.
1 day since point of perigee on 3 March 2072 at 18:40 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 16 March 2072 at 05:25 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 364 718 km (226 625 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 956 km (252 249 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♍ Virgo at 21:20 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next descending node later on 18 March 2072 at 21:48 in ♓ Pisces.
4 days since the last northern standstill on 28 February 2072 at 19:35 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.278° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.269° at the point of next southern standstill on 12 March 2072 at 13:34 in ♐ Sagittarius.
At 21:20 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.
The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com
Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov