Full Moon
Full MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Full Moon in Scorpio

Full Moon on . Illuminated surface of the Moon is 100%. Lunar cycle is 14 days old.

* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 26 April 2097 at 12:09 UTC.

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.

Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♏ Scorpio

Moon is passing about ∠7° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.

It is Pink Moon

The Full Moon these days is the Pink of April 2097.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1799"

Lunar disc appears visually 5.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1799" and ∠1906".

Lunation 1203 / 2156

The Moon is 14 days old and navigating through the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1203 of Meeus index or 2156 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.38 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 14 minutes and it is 1 hour and 40 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°).

Lunation length shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 30 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 39 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠319.8°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠319.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠339.2°.

Moon before apogee

11 days since point of perigee on 14 April 2097 at 21:49 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 30 April 2097 at 19:19 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Distance to Moon 398 338 km

The Moon is 398 338 km (247 516 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 4 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 323 km (251 856 mi).

Moon in descending node

Moon is in descending node in ♏ Scorpio at 22:40 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 11 May 2097 at 03:30 in ♉ Taurus.

Moon before southern standstill

9 days since the last northern standstill on 17 April 2097 at 11:44 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.513° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.535° at the point of next southern standstill on 1 May 2097 at 12:40 in ♑ Capricorn.

Draconic month

12 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the lunar cycle.

Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy

The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

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