Moon is passing about ∠8° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
4 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 4 days on 29 July 2026 at 14:36.
Buck Moon before 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2026 after 24 days on 28 August 2026 at 04:18.
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 ∠1893"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1893" and ∠1891".
Lunation 328 / 1281
The Moon is 19 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 328 of Meeus index or 1281 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 53 minutes and it is 1 hour and 57 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 4 hours and 51 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 18 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠18°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠18° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠36.5°.
Moon before perigee
8 days since point of apogee on 25 July 2026 at 16:45 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 10 August 2026 at 11:18 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 378 549 km(235 219 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 363 288 km(225 737 mi).
Moon after ascending node
3 days after ascending node on 31 July 2026 at 11:54 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 13 August 2026 at 09:56 in ♌ Leo.
8 days since the last southern standstill on 26 July 2026 at 03:56 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.067° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.107° at the point of next northern standstill on 8 August 2026 at 23:42 in ♊ Gemini.
In 9 days on 12 August 2026 at 17:37 in ♌ Leo 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.