Moon is leaving the last ∠4° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♍ Virgo later.
5 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 4 September 2026 at 07:51.
Harvest Moon after 17 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2026 after 17 days on 26 September 2026 at 16:49.
Moderate tide
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1927"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1927" and ∠1905".
Lunation 329 / 1282
The Moon is 27 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 329 of Meeus index or 1282 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 50 minutes and it is 2 hours and 33 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 54 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 15 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠36.5°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠36.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠61.3°.
Moon after perigee
2 days since point of perigee on 6 September 2026 at 20:26 in ♋ Cancer 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 19 September 2026 at 03:00 in ♐ Sagittarius.
The Moon is 372 032 km(231 170 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 9 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 217 km(251 169 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♌ Leo at 19:17 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 24 September 2026 at 02:40 in ♒ Aquarius.
4 days since the last northern standstill on 5 September 2026 at 06:12 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.109° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.065° at the point of next southern standstill on 18 September 2026 at 18:54 in ♐ Sagittarius.
In 1 day on 11 September 2026 at 03:27 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.