Moon is passing about ∠9° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
It is Flower Moon
The Full Moon these days is the Flower of May 2076.
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 ∠1918"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1918" and ∠1896".
Lunation 944 / 1897
The Moon is 15 days old and navigating through the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 944 of Meeus index or 1897 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 22 minutes and it is 1 hour and 29 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 22 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 47 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠78.4°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠78.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠114.1°.
Moon before perigee
9 days since point of apogee on 10 May 2076 at 07:16 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 22 May 2076 at 07:47 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 373 697 km(232 205 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 366 904 km(227 984 mi).
Moon before descending node
12 days after ascending node on 6 May 2076 at 13:36 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 20 May 2076 at 16:43 in ♐ Sagittarius.
11 days since the last northern standstill on 7 May 2076 at 18:28 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠24.265° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠-24.310° at the point of next southern standstill on 21 May 2076 at 17:57 in ♑ Capricorn.