Full Moon
Full MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Full Moon in Sagittarius

Full Moon on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 100%. The lunar cycle is 14 days old.

* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 30 May 2094 at 00:58 UTC.

Moonrise and moonset

The moon rises at sunset and sets at sunrise. It is visible all night and it is high in the sky around midnight.

Moon phases on nearby dates

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Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon is entering ♐ Sagittarius

Moon is passing first ∠2° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.

It is Flower Moon

The Full Moon these days is the Flower of May 2094.

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 ∠1882"

Lunar disc appears visually 0.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1882" and ∠1893".

Lunation 1167 / 2120

The Moon is 14 days old and navigating through the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1167 of Meeus index or 2120 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.5 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 54 minutes and it is 1 hour and 39 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 50 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 19 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠74.7°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠74.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠109.9°.

Moon before perigee

7 days since point of apogee on 21 May 2094 at 19:13 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 2 June 2094 at 22:20 in ♑ Capricorn.

Distance to Moon 380 764 km

The Moon is 380 764 km (236 596 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 4 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 367 459 km (228 328 mi).

Moon before descending node

11 days after ascending node on 17 May 2094 at 21:46 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 1 June 2094 at 01:35 in ♑ Capricorn.

Moon before southern standstill

11 days since the last northern standstill on 18 May 2094 at 05:10 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠23.256° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠-23.296° at the point of next southern standstill on 1 June 2094 at 08:45 in ♑ Capricorn.

Draconic month

11 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy

The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com

Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov