Moon is passing about ∠7° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Buck Moon after 15 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2013 after 15 days on 22 July 2013 at 18:15.
Super spring tide
There is extremely high New Moon ocean tide on this date. Combined Sun and Moon gravitational tidal force working on Earth is heavy, because of the Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment and the near perigee.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1887".
New lunation 166 / 1119
At 15:56 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 166 of Meeus index or lunation 1119 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 18 minutes. It is 42 minutes longer than the next 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 34 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 29 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠168.8°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠168.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠191.6°.
Moon at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 00:36 about 13 days since last perigee on 23 June 2013 at 11:09 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 14 days until point of next perigee on 21 July 2013 at 20:27 in ♑ Capricorn.
This apogee Moon is 406 493 km(252 583 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's farthest apogee of 2013. It is 1 085 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 216 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon after descending node
4 days after descending node on 3 July 2013 at 04:15 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 17 July 2013 at 14:58 in ♏ Scorpio.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 6 July 2013 at 02:09 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠20.170° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠-20.097° at the point of next southern standstill on 20 July 2013 at 03:12 in ♐ Sagittarius.