Full
Moon ♐ 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 14 days old Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 9 May 2047 at 18:24 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 ∠1970"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1970" and ∠1900".
It is Flower Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Flower of May 2047.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 16 May 2047 at 16:46
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 24 May 2047 at 20:27
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 1 June 2047 at 11:54
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 8 June 2047 at 02:05
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 585 / 1538
The Moon is 14 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 585 of Meeus index or 1538 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.66 days
Length of current 585 lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 48 minutes. It is 1 hour and 40 minutes longer than next lunation 586 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 3 hours and 4 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours and 59 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠185.7°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠185.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠210.1°. 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 in perigee
Moon is reaching point of perigee on this date at 02:43, this is 14 days after last apogee on 24 April 2047 at 13:11 in ♈ Aries. Lunar orbit is starting to get wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth for 12 days ahead, until it will get to the point of next apogee on 21 May 2047 at 20:02 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 357 602 km
This perigee Moon is 357 602 km (222 204 mi) away from Earth. It is 4 906 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 12 754 km farther than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon before ascending node
8 days after its descending node on 1 May 2047 at 06:05 in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 4 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 13 May 2047 at 18:17 in ♑ Capricorn.
Draconic month
22 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
10 days after previous North standstill on 28 April 2047 at 23:17 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠25.418°. Next 2 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-25.371° in the next southern standstill on 11 May 2047 at 19:59 in ♐ Sagittarius.
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.