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 7 May 2031 at 03:40 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 ∠21° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
The Full Moon these days is the Flower of May 2031.
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 2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1940" and ∠1901".
The Moon is 15 days old and navigating through the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 387 of Meeus index or 1340 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 20 minutes and it is 47 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 36 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 27 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 ∠106.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠139.8°.
10 days since point of apogee on 27 April 2031 at 10:30 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 9 May 2031 at 07:28 in ♐ Sagittarius.
The Moon is 369 566 km (229 638 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 362 851 km (225 465 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♏ Scorpio at 22:55 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next descending node later on 21 May 2031 at 03:26 in ♉ Taurus.
11 days since the last northern standstill on 25 April 2031 at 12:37 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠21.107° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-21.092° at the point of next southern standstill on 9 May 2031 at 07:56 in ♐ Sagittarius.
At 22:55 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.
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