Moon is passing about ∠15° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
4 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 10 July 2023 at 01:48.
Sturgeon Moon after 18 days
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2023 after 18 days on 1 August 2023 at 18:31.
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 ∠1827"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1827" and ∠1888".
Lunation 290 / 1243
The Moon is 26 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 290 of Meeus index or 1243 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 55 minutes and it is 1 hour and 11 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 11 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 52 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠127.4°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠127.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠155.7°.
Moon before apogee
9 days since point of perigee on 4 July 2023 at 22:28 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 20 July 2023 at 06:56 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 392 311 km(243 771 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 5 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 291 km(252 458 mi).
Moon after ascending node
3 days after ascending node on 11 July 2023 at 01:23 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 25 July 2023 at 15:05 in ♎ Libra.
11 days since the last southern standstill on 3 July 2023 at 01:23 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.840° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠27.849° at the point of next northern standstill on 16 July 2023 at 02:40 in ♋ Cancer.
In 3 days on 17 July 2023 at 18:32 in ♋ Cancer 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.