Moon is passing about ∠8° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
It is Sturgeon Moon
The Full Moon these days is the Sturgeon of August 2024.
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 ∠1961"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1961" and ∠1897".
Lunation 304 / 1257
The Moon is 15 days old and navigating through the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 304 of Meeus index or 1257 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 43 minutes and it is 2 hours 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 58 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 4 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠127.3°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠127.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠155.7°.
Moon before perigee
11 days since point of apogee on 9 August 2024 at 01:32 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 21 August 2024 at 05:05 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 365 448 km(227 079 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 360 199 km(223 817 mi).
Moon before ascending node
11 days after descending node on 9 August 2024 at 01:06 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 22 August 2024 at 10:27 in ♈ Aries.
4 days since the last southern standstill on 15 August 2024 at 20:10 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.546° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.606° at the point of next northern standstill on 28 August 2024 at 11:09 in ♋ Cancer.