Moon is passing about ∠16° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Buck Moon after 21 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2024 after 21 days on 21 July 2024 at 10:17.
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 ∠1969"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1969" and ∠1887".
Lunation 302 / 1255
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 302 of Meeus index or 1255 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 20 minutes and it is 1 hour and 56 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 24 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 45 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠60.7°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠60.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠93.2°.
Moon after perigee
2 days since point of perigee on 27 June 2024 at 11:45 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 12 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 12 July 2024 at 08:12 in ♎ Libra.
The Moon is 364 027 km(226 196 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 12 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 363 km(251 260 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♈ Aries at 04:26 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 12 July 2024 at 22:27 in ♎ Libra.
7 days since the last southern standstill on 22 June 2024 at 02:41 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.345° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.352° at the point of next northern standstill on 5 July 2024 at 00:08 in ♋ Cancer.
At 04:26 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.
In 6 days on 5 July 2024 at 22:57 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.