Moon is passing about ∠5° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
3 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 4 August 2018 at 18:18.
Sturgeon Moon after 17 days
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2018 after 17 days on 26 August 2018 at 11:56.
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 ∠1964"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1964" and ∠1892".
Lunation 229 / 1182
The Moon is 26 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 229 of Meeus index or 1182 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 10 minutes and it is 54 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 5 hours and 34 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 35 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠356°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠356° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠11.2°.
Moon before perigee
12 days since point of apogee on 27 July 2018 at 05:44 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 10 August 2018 at 18:05 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 365 016 km(226 810 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 083 km(222 502 mi).
Moon before ascending node
11 days after descending node on 27 July 2018 at 22:40 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 10 August 2018 at 13:40 in ♋ Cancer.
At 22:33 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠20.757°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-20.773° at the point of next southern standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 22 August 2018 at 02:58.
In 2 days on 11 August 2018 at 09:58 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.