Waning
Gibbous ♐ Sagittarius
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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 25 May 2070 at 01:37 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 ∠9° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1894".
It is Flower Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Flower of May 2070.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 2 June 2070 at 01:26
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 8 June 2070 at 18:24
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 15 June 2070 at 13:40
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 23 June 2070 at 16:57
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 870 / 1823
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 870 of Meeus index or 1823 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.3 days
Length of current 870 lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 16 minutes. It is 26 minutes longer than next lunation 871 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 5 hours and 28 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 41 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠350.2°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠350.2°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠5.3°. 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 in apogee
Moon is reaching point of apogee on this date at 10:55, this is 14 days after last perigee on 11 May 2070 at 01:00 in ♉ Taurus. Lunar orbit is starting to get closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth for 13 days ahead, until it will get to the point of next perigee on 8 June 2070 at 10:48 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 406 329 km
This apogee Moon is 406 329 km (252 481 mi) away from Earth. It is 921 km farther than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 380 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon after ascending node
3 days after its ascending node on 21 May 2070 at 18:54 in ♎ Libra, 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 2070 at 03:55 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
3 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
12 days after previous North standstill on 12 May 2070 at 15:52 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠18.793°. Next day the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-18.834° in the next southern standstill on 26 May 2070 at 17:02 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.