Waning
Gibbous ♏ Scorpio
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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 15 days old Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 24 April 2100 at 09:43 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 ♏ Scorpio
Moon is passing about ∠6° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1971"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1971" and ∠1907".
It is Pink Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Pink of April 2100.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 1 May 2100 at 05:01
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 9 May 2100 at 08:54
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 17 May 2100 at 02:42
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 23 May 2100 at 17:25
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 1240 / 2193
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 1240 of Meeus index or 2193 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.69 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 37 minutes. It is 1 hour and 59 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 53 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 10 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠176.6°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠176.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠200.1°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 02:13. It is 14 days after previous apogee on 10 April 2100 at 01:45 in ♈ Aries. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 12 days, until point of next apogee on 7 May 2100 at 05:13 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 357 008 km
This perigee Moon is 357 008 km (221 834 mi) away from Earth. It is 5 500 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 13 348 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon after descending node
3 days after descending node on 21 April 2100 at 05:33 in ♍ Virgo. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 9 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 4 May 2100 at 01:19 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
17 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
9 days since the previous standstill on 15 April 2100 at 08:21 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.446°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.374° at the point of next southern standstill on 28 April 2100 at 00:08 in ♑ Capricorn.
Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy
The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
