Full
Moon ♏ Scorpio
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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 17 April 2087 at 23:17 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 ∠23° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1770"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1770" and ∠1911".
It is Pink Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Pink of April 2087.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 26 April 2087 at 00:51
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 2 May 2087 at 17:51
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 9 May 2087 at 13:09
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 17 May 2087 at 15:55
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 1079 / 2032
The Moon is 14 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 1079 of Meeus index or 2032 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.35 days
Length of current 1079 lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 25 minutes. It is 37 minutes longer than next lunation 1080 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 19 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 50 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠347.9°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠347.9°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠3.2°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon before apogee
13 days after point of perigee on 4 April 2087 at 02:28 in ♈ Aries. 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 April 2087 at 16:59 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 404 913 km
Moon is 404 913 km (251 601 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next day until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 266 km (252 442 mi).
Moon before ascending node
11 days after its descending node on 6 April 2087 at 03:50 in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 2 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 20 April 2087 at 05:56 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
24 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
9 days after previous North standstill on 7 April 2087 at 18:11 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠20.888°. Next 4 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-20.818° in the next southern standstill on 22 April 2087 at 05:30 in ♐ Sagittarius.
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.