Moon is passing about ∠23° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
It is Flower Moon
The Full Moon these days is the Flower of May 2077.
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 ∠1822"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1822" and ∠1900".
Lunation 956 / 1909
The Moon is 15 days old and navigating through the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 956 of Meeus index or 1909 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 18 minutes and it is 59 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 3 hours and 26 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 43 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠28°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠28° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠50.2°.
Moon after apogee
5 days since point of apogee on 3 May 2077 at 00:26 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 18 May 2077 at 19:58 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 393 447 km(244 477 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 366 235 km(227 568 mi).
Moon before descending node
13 days after ascending node on 25 April 2077 at 03:43 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 9 May 2077 at 15:33 in ♐ Sagittarius.
10 days since the last northern standstill on 27 April 2077 at 12:56 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠25.782° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠-25.829° at the point of next southern standstill on 12 May 2077 at 02:35 in ♑ Capricorn.