Moon is passing about ∠11° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
6 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 6 days on 12 September 2053 at 09:36.
Harvest Moon after 9 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2053 after 9 days on 27 September 2053 at 21:50.
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 ∠1789"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1789" and ∠1910".
Lunation 664 / 1617
The Moon is 6 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 664 of Meeus index or 1617 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 18 minutes and it is 2 hours and 44 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 1 hour and 26 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 43 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠43.5°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠43.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠71.2°.
Moon before apogee
8 days since point of perigee on 9 September 2053 at 15:22 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 21 September 2053 at 11:30 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 400 544 km(248 887 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 434 km(251 304 mi).
Moon after ascending node
6 days after ascending node on 12 September 2053 at 03:56 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 26 September 2053 at 11:14 in ♓ Pisces.
11 days since the last northern standstill on 7 September 2053 at 03:16 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.322° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-18.328° at the point of next southern standstill on 20 September 2053 at 10:22 in ♑ Capricorn.
In 9 days on 27 September 2053 at 21:50 in ♓ Pisces 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.