Moon is passing about ∠18° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
2 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 5 August 2047 at 20:38.
Sturgeon Moon before 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2047 after 26 days on 4 September 2047 at 08:54.
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 ∠1808"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1808" and ∠1892".
Lunation 588 / 1541
The Moon is 17 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 588 of Meeus index or 1541 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 27 minutes and it is 1 hour and 12 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 2 hours and 17 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 52 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠274.9°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠274.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠306.1°.
Moon before apogee
9 days since point of perigee on 30 July 2047 at 09:01 in ♏ Scorpio 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 12 August 2047 at 22:38 in ♉ Taurus.
The Moon is 396 456 km(246 346 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 4 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 274 km(251 204 mi).
Moon after ascending node
4 days after ascending node on 3 August 2047 at 19:59 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 2047 at 04:37 in ♋ Cancer.
6 days since the last southern standstill on 1 August 2047 at 22:27 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-25.317° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠25.256° at the point of next northern standstill on 16 August 2047 at 02:57 in ♊ Gemini.
In 12 days on 21 August 2047 at 09:16 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.