Full
Moon ♐ Sagittarius
Moon phase for
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 14 days old Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 21 May 2016 at 21:15 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 leaving the last ∠3° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♐ Sagittarius later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1778"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1778" and ∠1895".
It is Flower Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Flower of May 2016.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 29 May 2016 at 12:12
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 5 June 2016 at 03:00
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 12 June 2016 at 08:10
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 20 June 2016 at 11:02
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 202 / 1155
The Moon is 14 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 202 of Meeus index or 1155 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.31 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 30 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2016. It is 31 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 14 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 55 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠10.8°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠10.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠27.6°.
Moon after apogee
2 days after point of apogee on 18 May 2016 at 22:06 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 3 June 2016 at 10:55 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 403 104 km
The Moon is 403 104 km (250 477 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 12 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 361 142 km (224 403 mi).
Moon after ascending node
5 days after ascending node on 15 May 2016 at 20:39 in ♍ Virgo. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 8 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 30 May 2016 at 04:45 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
5 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
11 days since the previous standstill on 9 May 2016 at 21:54 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.447°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.539° at the point of next southern standstill on 24 May 2016 at 11:16 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.
