Moon is passing first ∠0° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
5 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 4 October 2053 at 23:01.
Hunter Moon after 16 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2053 after 16 days on 27 October 2053 at 10:38.
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 ∠1906"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1906" and ∠1922".
Lunation 664 / 1617
The Moon is 28 days old and navigating from the second to the final 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 after perigee
4 days since point of perigee on 6 October 2053 at 10:09 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 8 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 19 October 2053 at 07:14 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 376 000 km(233 636 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 8 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 289 km(251 214 mi).
Moon after ascending node
1 day after ascending node on 9 October 2053 at 12:15 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 13 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 23 October 2053 at 18:33 in ♓ Pisces.
6 days since the last northern standstill on 4 October 2053 at 08:58 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.380° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.447° at the point of next southern standstill on 17 October 2053 at 18:44 in ♐ Sagittarius.
In 1 day on 11 October 2053 at 20:53 in ♎ Libra 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.