Waning
Gibbous ♐ Sagittarius
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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 15 days old Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 20 May 2008 at 02:11 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 is entering ♐ Sagittarius
Moon is passing first ∠4° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1896".
It is Flower Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Flower of May 2008.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 28 May 2008 at 02:57
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 3 June 2008 at 19:23
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 10 June 2008 at 15:04
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 18 June 2008 at 17:30
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 103 / 1056
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 103 of Meeus index or 1056 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.29 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 4 minutes. It is 8 minutes longer 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 5 hours and 40 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 29 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠349.4°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠349.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠4.4°.
Moon at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 14:27. It is 14 days after previous perigee on 6 May 2008 at 03:22 in ♉ Taurus. Lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the next 14 days, until point of next perigee on 3 June 2008 at 13:08 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 406 404 km
This apogee Moon is 406 404 km (252 528 mi) away from Earth. It is 996 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 305 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon before ascending node
8 days after descending node on 12 May 2008 at 06:37 in ♌ Leo. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 6 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 26 May 2008 at 21:45 in ♒ Aquarius.
Draconic month
20 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♒ Aquarius, 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 8 May 2008 at 01:51 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.625°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-27.542° at the point of next southern standstill on 22 May 2008 at 04:00 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.
