Moon is passing about ∠5° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
2 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 2 days on 15 July 2072 at 17:56.
Buck Moon after 11 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2072 after 11 days on 30 July 2072 at 00:17.
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 ∠1973"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1888".
Lunation 897 / 1850
The Moon is 3 days 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 after perigee
1 day since point of perigee on 17 July 2072 at 07:53 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 14 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 1 August 2072 at 19:10 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 363 299 km(225 744 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 14 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 886 km(252 206 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♍ Virgo at 20:41 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next descending node later on 1 August 2072 at 17:10 in ♓ Pisces.
4 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 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.639° at the point of next southern standstill on 27 July 2072 at 08:30 in ♑ Capricorn.
At 20:41 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.
In 11 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.