Full
Moon ♐ Sagittarius
Moon phase for
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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 17 May 2087 at 15:55 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 passing about ∠25° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1772"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1772" and ∠1897".
It is Flower Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Flower of May 2087.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 25 May 2087 at 10:41
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 1 June 2087 at 01:38
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 8 June 2087 at 02:45
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 16 June 2087 at 06:58
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 1080 / 2033
The Moon is 14 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 1080 of Meeus index or 2033 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.33 days
Length of current 1080 lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 48 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2087. It is 4 minutes shorter than next lunation 1081 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 56 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 13 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠3.2°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠3.2°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠19°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon after apogee
1 day after point of apogee on 15 May 2087 at 19:24 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 13 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 30 May 2087 at 22:29 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 404 582 km
Moon is 404 582 km (251 396 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 13 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 359 346 km (223 287 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♏ Scorpio at 11:58 on this date, it crosses the ecliptic from South to North. Moon will follow the northern part of its orbit for the next 13 days to meet descending node on 31 May 2087 at 00:23 in ♊ Gemini.
New draconic month
At 11:58 on this date the Moon is completing its previous draconic month and is entering the new one.
Moon before southern standstill
12 days after previous North standstill on 5 May 2087 at 03:19 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠20.806°. Next day the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-20.798° in the next southern standstill on 19 May 2087 at 11:07 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy
The Moon is in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun on this date and this alignment forms Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.