Full
Moon ♐ Sagittarius
Moon phase for
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 14 days old Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 22 May 2081 at 20:26 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 ♏ Scorpio
Moon is leaving the last ∠2° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♐ Sagittarius later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1884"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1884" and ∠1895".
It is Flower Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Flower of May 2081.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 30 May 2081 at 15:35
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 7 June 2081 at 09:01
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 14 June 2081 at 04:16
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 21 June 2081 at 07:32
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 1006 / 1959
The Moon is 14 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 1006 of Meeus index or 1959 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.45 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 53 minutes. It is 2 hours and 10 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the 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 1 hour and 51 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 18 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠265.8°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠265.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠298.3°.
Moon after perigee
4 days after point of perigee on 17 May 2081 at 14:15 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 30 May 2081 at 09:21 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 380 503 km
The Moon is 380 503 km (236 434 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 7 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 064 km (251 074 mi).
Moon after descending node
4 days after descending node on 17 May 2081 at 20:00 in ♍ Virgo. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 9 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 31 May 2081 at 13:42 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
18 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
10 days since the previous standstill on 11 May 2081 at 21:38 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.437°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.376° at the point of next southern standstill on 24 May 2081 at 19:52 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy
The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
