Moon is passing about ∠11° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
1 day after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 10 October 2026 at 15:50.
Hunter Moon after 13 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2026 after 13 days on 26 October 2026 at 04:12.
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 ∠1807"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1807" and ∠1923".
Lunation 331 / 1284
The Moon is 2 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 331 of Meeus index or 1284 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 12 minutes and it is 2 hours and 38 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 2 hours and 28 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 35 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠94.5°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠94.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠129.9°.
Moon before apogee
10 days since point of perigee on 1 October 2026 at 20:41 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 16 October 2026 at 22:56 in ♐ Sagittarius.
The Moon is 396 713 km(246 506 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 4 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 639 km(251 431 mi).
Moon after descending node
5 days after descending node on 7 October 2026 at 01:19 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 8 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 21 October 2026 at 08:53 in ♒ Aquarius.
10 days since the last northern standstill on 2 October 2026 at 11:35 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.989° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.892° at the point of next southern standstill on 16 October 2026 at 02:45 in ♐ Sagittarius.
In 13 days on 26 October 2026 at 04:12 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is going to be in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.