Moon is leaving the last ∠2° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♍ Virgo later.
5 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 8 September 2069 at 01:22.
Harvest Moon after 17 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2069 after 17 days on 30 September 2069 at 18:09.
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 ∠1836"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1836" and ∠1908".
Lunation 861 / 1814
The Moon is 27 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 861 of Meeus index or 1814 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 32 minutes and it is 2 hours and 56 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 48 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 15 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠99.7°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠99.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠133.4°.
Moon before apogee
9 days since point of perigee on 3 September 2069 at 20:15 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 19 September 2069 at 17:06 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 390 483 km(242 635 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 6 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 575 km(252 013 mi).
Moon before ascending node
8 days after descending node on 5 September 2069 at 05:58 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 18 September 2069 at 23:24 in ♎ Libra.
5 days since the last northern standstill on 8 September 2069 at 10:56 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.464° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.361° at the point of next southern standstill on 22 September 2069 at 21:04 in ♐ Sagittarius.
In 1 day on 15 September 2069 at 11:35 in ♍ Virgo 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.