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 8 May 2028 at 19:49 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 ∠14° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.

It is Flower Moon

The Full Moon these days is the Flower of May 2028.

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 ∠1911"

Lunar disc appears visually 0.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1911" and ∠1901".

Lunation 350 / 1303

The Moon is 14 days old and navigating through the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 350 of Meeus index or 1303 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.52 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 29 minutes and it is 2 hours and 18 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 15 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 54 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠243.3°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠243.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠278.2°.

Moon after perigee

3 days since point of perigee on 5 May 2028 at 10:31 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 17 May 2028 at 09:55 in ♓ Pisces.

Distance to Moon 375 115 km

The Moon is 375 115 km (233 086 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 8 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 276 km (251 205 mi).

Moon before ascending node

7 days after descending node on 30 April 2028 at 22:47 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 13 May 2028 at 20:46 in ♑ Capricorn.

Moon before southern standstill

10 days since the last northern standstill on 28 April 2028 at 08:04 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.020° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠-25.961° at the point of next southern standstill on 11 May 2028 at 03:45 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

21 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the second to the final 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