Moon is passing about ∠21° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
It is Flower Moon
The Full Moon these days is the Flower of May 2079.
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 ∠1775"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1775" and ∠1898".
Lunation 981 / 1934
The Moon is 14 days old and navigating through the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 981 of Meeus index or 1934 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 44 minutes and it is 54 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 9 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠341.2°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠341.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠356.9°.
Moon before apogee
12 days since point of perigee on 2 May 2079 at 13:49 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 17 May 2079 at 16:24 in ♐ Sagittarius.
The Moon is 403 791 km(250 904 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 158 km(252 375 mi).
Moon after descending node
1 day after descending node on 13 May 2079 at 20:46 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 28 May 2079 at 04:40 in ♉ Taurus.
10 days since the last northern standstill on 5 May 2079 at 02:09 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.041° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.005° at the point of next southern standstill on 19 May 2079 at 06:26 in ♑ Capricorn.