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 26 May 2021 at 11:14 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 ♐ Sagittarius
Moon is passing about ∠6° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1971"
Lunar disc appears visually 4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1971" and ∠1894".
It is Flower Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Flower of May 2021.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 2 June 2021 at 07:24
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 10 June 2021 at 10:53
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 18 June 2021 at 03:54
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 24 June 2021 at 18:40
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 264 / 1217
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 264 of Meeus index or 1217 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.66 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 53 minutes. It is 1 hour and 29 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 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.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠178.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠178.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠202.3°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 01:52. It is 14 days after previous apogee on 11 May 2021 at 21:54 in ♉ Taurus. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 12 days, until point of next apogee on 8 June 2021 at 02:27 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 357 310 km
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 in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♐ Sagittarius at 19:38 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 14 days later on 9 June 2021 at 16:42 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
13 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
10 days since the previous 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.
Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy
The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
