Full
Moon* ♎ Libra
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
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 ♍ Virgo.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 26 March 2100 at 01:05 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 ♍ Virgo
Moon is leaving the last ∠3° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♎ Libra later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1964"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1964" and ∠1924".
It is Worm Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Worm of March 2100.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 26 March 2100 at 01:05
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 1 April 2100 at 16:35
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 9 April 2100 at 16:16
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 17 April 2100 at 16:42
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 1239 / 2192
The Moon is 14 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 1239 of Meeus index or 2192 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.74 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 48 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2100. It is 1 hour and 11 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 4 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 59 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠151.4°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠151.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠176.6°.
Moon before apogee
11 days after point of apogee on 13 March 2100 at 21:09 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 26 March 2100 at 14:59 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 365 001 km
The Moon is 365 001 km (226 801 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 415 km (222 087 mi).
Moon after descending node
1 day after descending node on 24 March 2100 at 20:18 in ♍ Virgo. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 12 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 6 April 2100 at 22:10 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
14 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
6 days since the previous standstill on 19 March 2100 at 01:51 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.566°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.525° at the point of next southern standstill on 31 March 2100 at 15:42 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.
