Moon is passing about ∠5° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
1 day after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 15 July 2072 at 17:56.
Buck Moon after 13 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2072 after 13 days on 30 July 2072 at 00:17.
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 ∠1959"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1959" and ∠1888".
Lunation 897 / 1850
The Moon is 1 day young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 897 of Meeus index or 1850 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 25 minutes and it is 21 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2072. 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 19 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 50 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠333.8°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠333.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠350.4°.
Moon before perigee
11 days since point of apogee on 5 July 2072 at 05:53 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 17 July 2072 at 07:53 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 365 812 km(227 305 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 360 898 km(224 252 mi).
Moon before ascending node
10 days after descending node on 5 July 2072 at 13:03 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 18 July 2072 at 20:41 in ♍ Virgo.
2 days since the last northern standstill on 14 July 2072 at 10:48 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.668° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.639° at the point of next southern standstill on 27 July 2072 at 08:30 in ♑ Capricorn.
In 13 days on 30 July 2072 at 00:17 in ♒ Aquarius 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.