Full
Moon* ♏ Scorpio
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Full Moon 99% illuminated
Full Moon is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 99%. The 14 days old Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 16 May 2022 at 04:14 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 ♏ Scorpio
Moon is passing about ∠15° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1939"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1939" and ∠1898".
It is Flower Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Flower of May 2022.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 16 May 2022 at 04:14
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 22 May 2022 at 18:43
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 30 May 2022 at 11:30
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 7 June 2022 at 14:48
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 276 / 1229
The Moon is 14 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 276 of Meeus index or 1229 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.63 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 2 minutes. It is 20 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 18 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 45 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠126°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠126°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠155.2°.
Moon before apogee
9 days after point of apogee on 5 May 2022 at 12:46 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 17 May 2022 at 15:23 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 369 692 km
The Moon is 369 692 km (229 716 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 360 298 km (223 879 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♏ Scorpio at 23:44 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 13 days later on 29 May 2022 at 02:33 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
13 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
9 days since the previous standstill on 5 May 2022 at 15:55 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.967°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠-26.964° at the point of next southern standstill on 19 May 2022 at 01:21 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.
