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 ♏ Scorpio.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 17 May 2030 at 11:19 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 ∠1973"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1897".
It is Flower Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Flower of May 2030.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 24 May 2030 at 04:57
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 1 June 2030 at 06:21
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 9 June 2030 at 03:36
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 15 June 2030 at 18:41
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 375 / 1328
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 375 of Meeus index or 1328 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.67 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 9 minutes. It is 56 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 25 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 38 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠165.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠165.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠189°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 13:45. It is 13 days after previous apogee on 4 May 2030 at 03:39 in ♊ Gemini. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 13 days, until point of next apogee on 31 May 2030 at 06:14 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 357 018 km
This perigee Moon is 357 018 km (221 841 mi) away from Earth. It is 5 490 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 13 338 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon before ascending node
12 days after descending node on 5 May 2030 at 11:55 in ♊ Gemini. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 18 May 2030 at 18:32 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
26 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
11 days since the previous standstill on 5 May 2030 at 14:44 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠22.748°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-22.737° at the point of next southern standstill on 18 May 2030 at 20:54 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.
