April Full Moon 2023

Full Moon 99% illuminated

Full Moon is the lunar phase on 5 April 2023, Wednesday. Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 99%. The 14 days old Moon is in ♎ Libra.

* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 6 April 2023 at 04:35 UTC.

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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 ∠7° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1815"

Lunar disc appears visually 5.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1815" and ∠1918".

It is Pink Moon

The Full Moon this days is the Pink of April 2023.

Upcoming main Moon phases

• Full Moon in Libra ♎ after 1 day on 6 April 2023 at 04:35
• Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ after 7 days on 13 April 2023 at 09:11
• New Moon in Aries ♈ after 14 days on 20 April 2023 at 04:12
• First Quarter in Leo ♌ after 22 days on 27 April 2023 at 21:20

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 287 / 1240

The Moon is 14 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 287 of Meeus index or 1240 from Brown series.

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Synodic month length 29.45 days

The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 49 minutes. It is 52 minutes shorter 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 shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 55 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 14 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

True anomaly ∠34.1°

At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠34.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠59.2°.

Moon after apogee

5 days after point of apogee on 31 March 2023 at 11:18 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 16 April 2023 at 02:22 in ♓ Pisces.

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Distance to Moon 395 016 km

The Moon is 395 016 km [245 452 mi] away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 367 967 km [228 644 mi].

Moon before descending node

12 days after ascending node on 24 March 2023 at 02:08 in ♉ Taurus. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 2 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 7 April 2023 at 13:51 in ♎ Libra.

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Draconic month

12 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.

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Moon before southern standstill

7 days since the previous standstill on 28 March 2023 at 21:29 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.898°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.947° at the point of next southern standstill on 12 April 2023 at 03:15 in ♑ Capricorn.

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Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy

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

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