Full
Moon* ♏ Scorpio
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Full Moon 99% illuminated
Full Moon is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 99%. The 14 days old Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 16 May 2003 at 03:36 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 ∠15° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1973"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1898".
It is Flower Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Flower of May 2003.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 16 May 2003 at 03:36
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 23 May 2003 at 00:31
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 31 May 2003 at 04:20
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 7 June 2003 at 20:28
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 41 / 994
The Moon is 14 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 41 of Meeus index or 994 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.67 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 5 minutes. It is 1 hour and 46 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 21 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 42 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠181.7°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠181.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠205.5°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 15:39. It is 14 days after previous apogee on 1 May 2003 at 07:39 in ♉ Taurus. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 13 days, until point of next apogee on 28 May 2003 at 13:05 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 357 449 km
This perigee Moon is 357 449 km (222 109 mi) away from Earth. It is 5 059 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 12 907 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon before descending node
12 days after ascending node on 3 May 2003 at 02:17 in ♉ Taurus. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 16 May 2003 at 10:51 in ♏ Scorpio.
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.
Moon before southern standstill
9 days since the previous standstill on 6 May 2003 at 09:48 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.496°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠-26.503° at the point of next southern standstill on 19 May 2003 at 03:13 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.
