Moon is passing about ∠5° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
It is Flower Moon
The Full Moon these days is the Flower of May 2015.
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.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1801"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1801" and ∠1903".
Lunation 189 / 1142
The Moon is 14 days old and navigating through the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 189 of Meeus index or 1142 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 16 minutes and it is 36 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2015. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit 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 3 hours and 28 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 41 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠27.1°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠27.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠48.8°.
Moon after apogee
4 days since point of apogee on 29 April 2015 at 03:55 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 15 May 2015 at 00:23 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 397 978 km(247 292 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 11 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 366 024 km(227 437 mi).
Moon after ascending node
2 days after ascending node on 1 May 2015 at 09:50 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 14 May 2015 at 20:37 in ♈ Aries.
10 days since the last northern standstill on 22 April 2015 at 23:26 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.280° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.343° at the point of next southern standstill on 7 May 2015 at 13:39 in ♐ Sagittarius.