Moon is passing about ∠22° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
5 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 5 days on 3 September 2005 at 18:45.
Harvest Moon after 8 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2005 after 8 days on 18 September 2005 at 02:01.
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 ∠1884"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1884" and ∠1905".
Lunation 70 / 1023
The Moon is 5 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 70 of Meeus index or 1023 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 42 minutes and it is 45 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2005. 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 58 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 5 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠205.9°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠205.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠236.1°.
Moon before perigee
8 days since point of apogee on 1 September 2005 at 02:35 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 16 September 2005 at 13:58 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 380 481 km(236 420 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 7 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 360 406 km(223 946 mi).
Moon after descending node
3 days after descending node on 6 September 2005 at 10:52 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 19 September 2005 at 08:09 in ♈ Aries.
11 days since the last northern standstill on 28 August 2005 at 23:42 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.476° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.556° at the point of next southern standstill on 12 September 2005 at 10:54 in ♑ Capricorn.
In 8 days on 18 September 2005 at 02:01 in ♓ Pisces 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.