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 ♏ Scorpio.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 6 May 2012 at 03:35 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 ∠21° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1973"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1901".
It is Flower Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Flower of May 2012.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 12 May 2012 at 21:47
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 20 May 2012 at 23:47
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 28 May 2012 at 20:16
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 4 June 2012 at 11:12
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 152 / 1105
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 152 of Meeus index or 1105 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.69 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 29 minutes. It is 1 hour and 14 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 45 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 18 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠168.7°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠168.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠191.8°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 03:33. It is 13 days after previous apogee on 22 April 2012 at 13:49 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 19 May 2012 at 16:13 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 356 954 km
This perigee Moon is 356 954 km (221 801 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's closest perigee of 2012. It is 5 554 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 529 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon before ascending node
12 days after descending node on 24 April 2012 at 03:44 in ♊ Gemini. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 7 May 2012 at 09:43 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
26 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
11 days since the previous standstill on 25 April 2012 at 05:37 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠21.738°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-21.719° at the point of next southern standstill on 8 May 2012 at 06:18 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.
