Full Moon
Full MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Full Moon in Sagittarius

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.

Moonrise and moonset

The moon rises at sunset and sets at sunrise. It is visible all night and it is high in the sky around midnight.

Moon phases on nearby dates

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Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon is entering ♐ Sagittarius

Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.

It is Flower Moon

The Full Moon these days is the Flower of May 2068.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1843"

Lunar disc appears visually 2.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1843" and ∠1897".

Lunation 845 / 1798

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.

Synodic month length 29.41 days

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°).

Lunation length shorter than mean

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.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠39.5°

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°.

Moon after apogee

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.

Distance to Moon 388 908 km

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 in ascending node

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.

Moon before southern standstill

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.

New draconic month

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.

Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy

The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

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