Waning
Gibbous ♐ Sagittarius
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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 15 days old Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 23 May 2005 at 20:18 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 ♐ Sagittarius
Moon is passing about ∠12° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1935"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1935" and ∠1894".
It is Flower Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Flower of May 2005.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 30 May 2005 at 11:47
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 6 June 2005 at 21:55
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 15 June 2005 at 01:22
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 22 June 2005 at 04:14
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 66 / 1019
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 66 of Meeus index or 1019 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.55 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 10 minutes. It is 57 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 26 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 37 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠96.6°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠96.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠131.2°.
Moon before apogee
9 days after point of apogee on 14 May 2005 at 13:41 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 26 May 2005 at 10:43 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 370 361 km
The Moon is 370 361 km (230 132 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 364 241 km (226 329 mi).
Moon after descending node
3 days after descending node on 20 May 2005 at 22:02 in ♎ Libra. 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 2 June 2005 at 15:14 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
18 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
12 days since the previous standstill on 12 May 2005 at 00:42 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.317°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-28.270° at the point of next southern standstill on 25 May 2005 at 23:03 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy
The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
