Moon is passing about ∠20° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Sturgeon Moon after 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2040 after 6 days on 22 August 2040 at 09:09.
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 ∠1912"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1912" and ∠1895".
Lunation 502 / 1455
The Moon is 7 days young and navigating through the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 502 of Meeus index or 1455 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 47 minutes and it is 35 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 3 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠199°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠199° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠226.5°.
Moon before perigee
9 days since point of apogee on 5 August 2040 at 23:43 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 21 August 2040 at 03:58 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 374 877 km(232 938 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 5 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 359 359 km(223 295 mi).
Moon before descending node
13 days after ascending node on 1 August 2040 at 17:44 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 16 August 2040 at 05:30 in ♏ Scorpio.
10 days since the last northern standstill on 4 August 2040 at 21:26 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.211° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠-26.313° at the point of next southern standstill on 18 August 2040 at 23:35 in ♑ Capricorn.
In 6 days on 22 August 2040 at 09:09 in ♒ Aquarius 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.