Full Moon on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 100%. The lunar cycle is 15 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 17 May 2068 at 05:35 UTC.
The moon rises at sunset and sets at sunrise. It is visible all night and it is high in the sky around midnight.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
The Full Moon these days is the Flower of May 2068.
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.
Lunar disc appears visually 2.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1843" and ∠1897".
The Moon is 15 days old and navigating through the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 845 of Meeus index or 1798 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 56 minutes and it is 1 hour and 12 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 48 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 21 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠39.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠66°.
6 days since point of apogee on 11 May 2068 at 03:18 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 26 May 2068 at 09:16 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 388 908 km (241 656 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 368 748 km (229 129 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♏ Scorpio at 14:48 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next descending node later on 30 May 2068 at 13:21 in ♉ Taurus.
13 days since the last northern standstill on 4 May 2068 at 08:19 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠21.452° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-21.444° at the point of next southern standstill on 18 May 2068 at 20:10 in ♐ Sagittarius.
At 14:48 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.
The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com
Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov