Waning
Gibbous ♐ Sagittarius
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Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Full Moon 99% illuminated
Full Moon is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 99%. The 15 days old Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
* 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 is entering ♐ Sagittarius
Moon is passing first ∠0° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1960"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1960" 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 15 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 after perigee
1 day after point of perigee on 9 May 2047 at 02:43 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 11 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 21 May 2047 at 20:02 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 365 707 km
Moon is 365 707 km (227 240 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 11 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 202 km (252 402 mi).
Moon before ascending node
9 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 3 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
23 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
11 days after previous North standstill on 28 April 2047 at 23:17 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠25.418°. Next day 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.