Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 67% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 9 days young.
Moonrise and moonset
The moon rises in the afternoon and sets after midnight to early morning. It is visible to the southeast in early evening and it is up for most of the night.
Moon phases on nearby dates
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Moon is passing about ∠21° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
1 day after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 1 day on 22 August 2015 at 19:31.
Sturgeon Moon after 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2015 after 5 days on 29 August 2015 at 18:35.
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 ∠1856"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1856" and ∠1898".
Lunation 193 / 1146
The Moon is 9 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 193 of Meeus index or 1146 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 48 minutes and it is 1 hour and 36 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 4 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 59 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠144.1°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠144.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠169.3°.
Moon before perigee
6 days since point of apogee on 18 August 2015 at 02:33 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 30 August 2015 at 15:24 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 386 283 km(240 025 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 289 km(222 630 mi).
Moon after ascending node
6 days after ascending node on 17 August 2015 at 23:05 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 31 August 2015 at 10:16 in ♈ Aries.
14 days since the last northern standstill on 10 August 2015 at 11:11 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.288° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-18.206° at the point of next southern standstill on 25 August 2015 at 03:44 in ♐ Sagittarius.
In 5 days on 29 August 2015 at 18:35 in ♒ Aquarius 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.