Moon is leaving the last ∠2° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♈ Aries later.
It is Harvest Moon
The Full Moon these days is the Harvest of September 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 ∠1815"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1815" and ∠1906".
Lunation 886 / 1839
The Moon is 15 days old and navigating through the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 886 of Meeus index or 1839 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 5 minutes and it is 2 hours and 23 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 3 hours and 39 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 30 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠21.2°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠21.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠40.7°.
Moon after apogee
5 days since point of apogee on 5 September 2071 at 06:50 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 21 September 2071 at 04:01 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 394 926 km(245 396 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 364 336 km(226 388 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♓ Pisces at 12:00 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 23 September 2071 at 12:38 in ♍ Virgo.
7 days since the last southern standstill on 3 September 2071 at 06:02 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.164° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.143° at the point of next northern standstill on 17 September 2071 at 12:25 in ♋ Cancer.