Moon is passing about ∠24° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
3 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 3 August 2010 at 04:59.
Sturgeon Moon after 18 days
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2010 after 18 days on 24 August 2010 at 17:05.
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 ∠1907"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1907" and ∠1892".
Lunation 130 / 1083
The Moon is 25 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 130 of Meeus index or 1083 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 28 minutes and it is 6 minutes longer than the upcoming 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 16 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 53 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠332.7°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠332.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠349.5°.
Moon before perigee
8 days since point of apogee on 28 July 2010 at 23:50 in ♓ Pisces 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 10 August 2010 at 17:56 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 375 962 km(233 612 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 4 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 858 km(222 363 mi).
Moon before descending node
13 days after ascending node on 24 July 2010 at 07:59 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 7 August 2010 at 17:24 in ♋ Cancer.
At 02:49 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠24.984°. Over the upcoming 12 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-24.929° at the point of next southern standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 18 August 2010 at 17:07.
In 3 days on 10 August 2010 at 03:08 in ♌ Leo the Moon is going to be in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.