Moon is passing about ∠13° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Harvest Moon after 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2020 after 6 days on 2 September 2020 at 05:22.
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 ∠1937"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1937" and ∠1899".
Lunation 255 / 1208
The Moon is 8 days young and navigating through the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 255 of Meeus index or 1208 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 19 minutes and it is 12 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2020. 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 4 hours and 26 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 44 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠322.3°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠322.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠341.2°.
Moon after perigee
5 days since point of perigee on 21 August 2020 at 10:59 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 6 September 2020 at 06:31 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 370 143 km(229 996 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 606 km(252 032 mi).
Moon before descending node
11 days after ascending node on 14 August 2020 at 19:22 in ♊ Gemini 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 27 August 2020 at 11:52 in ♐ Sagittarius.
10 days since the last northern standstill on 15 August 2020 at 20:40 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠24.152° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠-24.219° at the point of next southern standstill on 28 August 2020 at 14:06 in ♑ Capricorn.
In 6 days on 2 September 2020 at 05:22 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.