Moon is passing about ∠10° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
5 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 26 August 2024 at 09:26.
Harvest Moon after 17 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2024 after 17 days on 18 September 2024 at 02:34.
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 ∠1813"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1813" and ∠1901".
Lunation 304 / 1257
The Moon is 27 days old and navigating from the second to the final 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 apogee
10 days since point of perigee on 21 August 2024 at 05:05 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 5 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 5 September 2024 at 14:55 in ♎ Libra.
The Moon is 395 257 km(245 601 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 5 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 215 km(252 410 mi).
Moon before descending node
9 days after ascending node on 22 August 2024 at 10:27 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 5 September 2024 at 05:43 in ♎ Libra.
3 days since the last northern standstill on 28 August 2024 at 11:09 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.606° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.671° at the point of next southern standstill on 12 September 2024 at 04:51 in ♑ Capricorn.
In 2 days on 3 September 2024 at 01:55 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.