Moon is passing first ∠0° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
It is Hunter Moon
The Full Moon these days is the Hunter of October 2023.
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 ∠1925"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1925" and ∠1931".
Lunation 294 / 1247
The Moon is 14 days old and navigating through the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 294 of Meeus index or 1247 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 32 minutes and it is 1 hour and 27 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 48 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 15 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠232.5°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠232.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠269.5°.
Moon after perigee
2 days since point of perigee on 26 October 2023 at 02:53 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 6 November 2023 at 21:49 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 372 341 km(231 362 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 9 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 569 km(251 388 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♈ Aries at 03:14 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next descending node later on 11 November 2023 at 08:49 in ♎ Libra.
8 days since the last southern standstill on 20 October 2023 at 09:19 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.305° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.288° at the point of next northern standstill on 2 November 2023 at 05:12 in ♋ Cancer.
At 03:14 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.