Moon is passing about ∠13° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
It is Sturgeon Moon
The Full Moon these days is the Sturgeon of August 2071.
Spring tide
There is high Full Moon ocean tide on this date. Combined Sun and Moon gravitational tidal force working on Earth is strong, because of the Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1771"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1771" and ∠1893".
Lunation 885 / 1838
The Moon is 14 days old and navigating through the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 885 of Meeus index or 1838 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 20 minutes and it is 1 hour and 45 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 5 hours and 24 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 45 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠5.3°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠5.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠21.2°.
Moon after apogee
1 day since point of apogee on 8 August 2071 at 20:04 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 13 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 24 August 2071 at 01:45 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 404 623 km(251 421 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 13 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 359 752 km(223 540 mi).
Moon before descending node
10 days after ascending node on 30 July 2071 at 18:19 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 14 August 2071 at 06:42 in ♓ Pisces.
3 days since the last southern standstill on 6 August 2071 at 22:51 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.284° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.210° at the point of next northern standstill on 21 August 2071 at 05:18 in ♋ Cancer.