Moon is passing about ∠13° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
4 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 4 days on 6 October 2002 at 11:17.
Hunter Moon after 10 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2002 after 10 days on 21 October 2002 at 07:20.
Neap tide
There is low ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at big angle, so their combined tidal force is weak.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1927"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1927" and ∠1922".
Lunation 34 / 987
The Moon is 4 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 34 of Meeus index or 987 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 17 minutes and it is 1 hour and 43 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 3 hours and 27 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 42 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠358.6°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠358.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠14°.
Moon after perigee
3 days since point of perigee on 6 October 2002 at 13:17 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 20 October 2002 at 04:41 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 371 887 km(231 080 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 9 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 358 km(252 499 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♐ Sagittarius at 07:07 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 24 October 2002 at 18:18 in ♊ Gemini.
10 days since the last northern standstill on 30 September 2002 at 00:04 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠25.530° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-25.624° at the point of next southern standstill on 12 October 2002 at 11:51 in ♑ Capricorn.
In 10 days on 21 October 2002 at 07:20 in ♈ Aries the Moon is going to be in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.