Full
Moon ♏ Scorpio
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 8 May 2028 at 19:49 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 ∠14° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1911"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1911" and ∠1901".
It is Flower Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Flower of May 2028.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 16 May 2028 at 10:43
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 24 May 2028 at 08:16
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 31 May 2028 at 07:37
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 7 June 2028 at 06:09
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 350 / 1303
The Moon is 14 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 350 of Meeus index or 1303 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.52 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 29 minutes. It is 2 hours and 18 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 15 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 54 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠243.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠243.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠278.2°.
Moon after perigee
3 days after point of perigee on 5 May 2028 at 10:31 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 17 May 2028 at 09:55 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 375 115 km
The Moon is 375 115 km (233 086 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 8 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 276 km (251 205 mi).
Moon before ascending node
7 days after descending node on 30 April 2028 at 22:47 in ♋ Cancer. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 13 May 2028 at 20:46 in ♑ Capricorn.
Draconic month
21 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
10 days since the previous standstill on 28 April 2028 at 08:04 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.020°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠-25.961° at the point of next southern standstill on 11 May 2028 at 03:45 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy
The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
