Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
It is Harvest Moon
The Full Moon these days is the Harvest of September 2020.
Spring tide
There is high Full Moon ocean tide on this date. Combined Sun and Moon gravitational tidal force working on Earth is strong, because of the Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1807"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1807" and ∠1902".
Lunation 255 / 1208
The Moon is 14 days old and navigating through the middle 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 before apogee
11 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 4 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 6 September 2020 at 06:31 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 396 554 km(246 407 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 4 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 606 km(252 032 mi).
Moon after descending node
5 days after descending node on 27 August 2020 at 11:52 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 10 September 2020 at 23:05 in ♊ Gemini.
3 days since the last southern standstill on 28 August 2020 at 14:06 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-24.219° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠24.353° at the point of next northern standstill on 12 September 2020 at 05:25 in ♋ Cancer.