Moon is passing about ∠16° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Hunter Moon after 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2069 after 5 days on 30 October 2069 at 03:35.
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 ∠1875"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1875" and ∠1930".
Lunation 863 / 1816
The Moon is 8 days young and navigating through the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 863 of Meeus index or 1816 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 34 minutes and it is 26 minutes shorter 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 5 hours and 50 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 13 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠161.2°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠161.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠185.4°.
Moon before perigee
7 days since point of apogee on 17 October 2069 at 05:28 in ♏ Scorpio 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 30 October 2069 at 09:15 in ♉ Taurus.
The Moon is 382 345 km(237 578 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 5 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 356 831 km(221 725 mi).
Moon before descending node
8 days after ascending node on 16 October 2069 at 05:04 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 29 October 2069 at 23:39 in ♈ Aries.
4 days since the last southern standstill on 20 October 2069 at 03:47 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.268° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.271° at the point of next northern standstill on 2 November 2069 at 01:44 in ♊ Gemini.
In 5 days on 30 October 2069 at 03:35 in ♉ Taurus 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.