Moon is passing first ∠4° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
It is Sturgeon Moon
The Full Moon these days is the Sturgeon of August 2072.
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 ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1900".
Lunation 898 / 1851
The Moon is 14 days old and navigating through the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 898 of Meeus index or 1851 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 46 minutes and it is 1 hour and 2 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 4 hours and 58 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 11 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠350.4°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠350.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠5.6°.
Moon before apogee
13 days since point of perigee on 14 August 2072 at 14:59 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 day until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 29 August 2072 at 00:37 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 405 408 km(251 909 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 270 km(252 444 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♓ Pisces at 23:05 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 11 September 2072 at 16:07 in ♍ Virgo.
4 days since the last southern standstill on 23 August 2072 at 14:36 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.564° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.564° at the point of next northern standstill on 7 September 2072 at 06:46 in ♋ Cancer.