Moon is passing about ∠12° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
It is Flower Moon
The Full Moon these days is the Flower of May 2074.
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 ∠1972"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1900".
Lunation 919 / 1872
The Moon is 14 days old and navigating through the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 919 of Meeus index or 1872 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 57 minutes and it is 1 hour and 3 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 13 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 50 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠170.1°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠170.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠193.2°.
Moon before perigee
13 days since point of apogee on 27 April 2074 at 09:29 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 11 May 2074 at 01:01 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 363 452 km(225 839 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 356 815 km(221 715 mi).
Moon before descending node
6 days after ascending node on 3 May 2074 at 18:36 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 16 May 2074 at 05:00 in ♒ Aquarius.
8 days since the last northern standstill on 1 May 2074 at 15:56 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠20.782° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠-20.864° at the point of next southern standstill on 14 May 2074 at 10:18 in ♑ Capricorn.