Full Moon on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 100%. The lunar cycle is 15 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 26 May 2021 at 11:14 UTC.
The moon rises at sunset and sets at sunrise. It is visible all night and it is high in the sky around midnight.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠6° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
The Full Moon these days is the Flower of May 2021.
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.
Lunar disc appears visually 4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1971" and ∠1894".
The Moon is 15 days old and navigating through the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 264 of Meeus index or 1217 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 53 minutes and it is 1 hour and 29 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 9 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 54 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠178.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠202.3°.
Moon is at perigee at 01:52 about 14 days since last apogee on 11 May 2021 at 21:54 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next apogee on 8 June 2021 at 02:27 in ♉ Taurus.
This perigee Moon is 357 310 km (222 022 mi) away from Earth. It is 5 198 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 13 046 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon is in descending node in ♐ Sagittarius at 19:38 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 9 June 2021 at 16:42 in ♊ Gemini.
10 days since the last northern standstill on 15 May 2021 at 22:25 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠25.640° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠-25.647° at the point of next southern standstill on 28 May 2021 at 19:21 in ♑ Capricorn.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the lunar cycle.
The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com
Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov