Waning
Gibbous ♐ Sagittarius
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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 12 May 2044 at 00:16 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 ∠2° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♐ Sagittarius later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1782"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1782" and ∠1899".
It is Flower Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Flower of May 2044.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 20 May 2044 at 04:02
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 27 May 2044 at 03:39
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 2 June 2044 at 18:33
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 10 June 2044 at 15:16
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 548 / 1501
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 548 of Meeus index or 1501 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.33 days
Length of current 548 lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 57 minutes. It is 1 hour and 12 minutes longer than next lunation 549 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 47 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 22 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠328.1°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠328.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠345.6°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon before apogee
12 days after point of perigee on 29 April 2044 at 18:30 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 2 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 15 May 2044 at 11:19 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 402 236 km
Moon is 402 236 km (249 938 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 2 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 405 736 km (252 113 mi).
Moon after descending node
5 days after its descending node on 6 May 2044 at 23:24 in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 9 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 21 May 2044 at 13:03 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
18 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
11 days after previous North standstill on 1 May 2044 at 05:01 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠28.450°. Next 2 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-28.366° in the next southern standstill on 15 May 2044 at 00:44 in ♑ Capricorn.
Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy
The Moon is in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun on this date and this alignment forms Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.