Moon is passing first ∠2° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
2 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 19 July 2016 at 22:57.
Buck Moon before 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2016 after 26 days on 18 August 2016 at 09:27.
Moderate tide
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1913"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1913" and ∠1889".
Lunation 204 / 1157
The Moon is 17 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 204 of Meeus index or 1157 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 44 minutes and it is 2 hours and 35 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 1 minute shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 9 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠48.9°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠48.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠77.9°.
Moon before perigee
9 days since point of apogee on 13 July 2016 at 05:24 in ♏ Scorpio 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 27 July 2016 at 11:25 in ♉ Taurus.
The Moon is 374 668 km(232 808 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 4 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 659 km(229 695 mi).
Moon before descending node
13 days after ascending node on 9 July 2016 at 01:41 in ♍ Virgo 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 23 July 2016 at 07:49 in ♓ Pisces.
4 days since the last southern standstill on 18 July 2016 at 03:41 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.569° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.529° at the point of next northern standstill on 31 July 2016 at 04:53 in ♋ Cancer.
In 11 days on 2 August 2016 at 20:45 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.