Waning
Gibbous ♐ Sagittarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
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 ♐ Sagittarius.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 27 May 2059 at 08:04 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 ∠8° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1866"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1866" and ∠1893".
It is Flower Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Flower of May 2059.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 3 June 2059 at 06:20
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 10 June 2059 at 05:57
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 18 June 2059 at 03:55
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 25 June 2059 at 18:12
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 734 / 1687
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 734 of Meeus index or 1687 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.45 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 42 minutes. It is 1 hour and 20 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 2 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 7 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠53.2°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠53.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠84.4°.
Moon before apogee
7 days after point of apogee on 20 May 2059 at 06:41 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 2 June 2059 at 22:39 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 384 098 km
The Moon is 384 098 km (238 667 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 676 km (229 706 mi).
Moon after descending node
1 day after descending node on 26 May 2059 at 14:46 in ♏ Scorpio. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 12 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 8 June 2059 at 12:58 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
15 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
12 days since the previous standstill on 15 May 2059 at 08:44 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.665°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠-26.652° at the point of next southern standstill on 29 May 2059 at 17:41 in ♑ Capricorn.
Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy
The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
