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 25 May 2051 at 17:35 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 ♐ Sagittarius
Moon is passing about ∠14° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1817"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1817" and ∠1894".
It is Flower Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Flower of May 2051.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 2 June 2051 at 02:15
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 8 June 2051 at 18:56
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 16 June 2051 at 05:55
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 24 June 2051 at 06:14
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 635 / 1588
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 635 of Meeus index or 1588 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.35 days
Length of current 635 lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 27 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2051. It is 46 minutes shorter than next lunation 636 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 17 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 52 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠23.1°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠23.1°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠43.2°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon after apogee
5 days after point of apogee on 21 May 2051 at 04:56 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 10 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 6 June 2051 at 01:20 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 394 459 km
Moon is 394 459 km (245 105 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 10 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 364 806 km (226 680 mi).
Moon after ascending node
3 days after its ascending node on 23 May 2051 at 02:03 in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 10 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 5 June 2051 at 14:37 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
3 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
13 days after previous North standstill on 12 May 2051 at 15:20 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠19.181°. Next day the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-19.213° in the next southern standstill on 27 May 2051 at 03:09 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.