Moon is passing about ∠21° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
3 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 5 August 2028 at 08:10.
Sturgeon Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2028 after 26 days on 3 September 2028 at 23:48.
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 ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1893".
Lunation 353 / 1306
The Moon is 17 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 353 of Meeus index or 1306 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 42 minutes and it is 2 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 2 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 7 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠330.4°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠330.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠347.7°.
Moon at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 12:54 about 15 days since last perigee on 23 July 2028 at 22:14 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next perigee on 21 August 2028 at 04:10 in ♍ Virgo.
This apogee Moon is 405 894 km(252 211 mi) away from Earth. It is 486 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 815 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon after ascending node
4 days after ascending node on 3 August 2028 at 16:20 in ♑ Capricorn 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 18 August 2028 at 02:04 in ♋ Cancer.
7 days since the last southern standstill on 1 August 2028 at 00:38 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-25.931° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠25.876° at the point of next northern standstill on 15 August 2028 at 17:21 in ♊ Gemini.
In 11 days on 20 August 2028 at 10:44 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.