Moon is leaving the last ∠2° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♌ Leo later.
3 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 10 September 2020 at 09:26.
Hunter Moon after 18 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2020 after 18 days on 1 October 2020 at 21:05.
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 ∠1876"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1876" and ∠1908".
Lunation 255 / 1208
The Moon is 25 days old and navigating from the second to the final 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 perigee
7 days since point of apogee on 6 September 2020 at 06:31 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 18 September 2020 at 13:44 in ♎ Libra.
The Moon is 381 985 km(237 354 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 5 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 359 081 km(223 123 mi).
Moon after ascending node
2 days after ascending node on 10 September 2020 at 23:05 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 23 September 2020 at 12:33 in ♐ Sagittarius.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 12 September 2020 at 05:25 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠24.353° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠-24.458° at the point of next southern standstill on 24 September 2020 at 19:11 in ♑ Capricorn.
In 3 days on 17 September 2020 at 11:00 in ♍ Virgo 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.