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 14 days old Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 7 May 2001 at 13:53 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 ∠16° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1875"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1875" and ∠1901".
It is Flower Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Flower of May 2001.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 15 May 2001 at 10:11
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 23 May 2001 at 02:46
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 29 May 2001 at 22:09
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 6 June 2001 at 01:39
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 16 / 969
The Moon is 14 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 16 of Meeus index or 969 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.47 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 20 minutes. It is 2 hours and 8 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 24 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 45 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠267.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠267.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠299.7°.
Moon after perigee
5 days after point of perigee on 2 May 2001 at 03:37 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 7 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 15 May 2001 at 01:29 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 382 296 km
The Moon is 382 296 km (237 548 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 7 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 141 km (251 122 mi).
Moon before descending node
9 days after ascending node on 28 April 2001 at 09:43 in ♋ Cancer. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 3 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 11 May 2001 at 11:02 in ♑ Capricorn.
Draconic month
9 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
8 days since the previous standstill on 28 April 2001 at 16:18 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠23.248°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-23.329° at the point of next southern standstill on 11 May 2001 at 20:26 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.
