Moon is passing about ∠6° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
2 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 2 days on 25 August 2073 at 21:05.
Harvest Moon after 18 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2073 after 18 days on 16 September 2073 at 08:52.
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 ∠1846"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1846" and ∠1900".
Lunation 910 / 1863
The Moon is 24 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 910 of Meeus index or 1863 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 49 minutes and it is 20 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. 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 3 hours and 55 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 14 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠313.1°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠313.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠334.3°.
Moon after apogee
5 days since point of apogee on 22 August 2073 at 13:26 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 3 September 2073 at 14:51 in ♍ Virgo.
The Moon is 388 222 km(241 230 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 360 664 km(224 106 mi).
Moon before ascending node
11 days after descending node on 17 August 2073 at 10:02 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 31 August 2073 at 18:55 in ♌ Leo.
At 17:17 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠19.572°. Over the upcoming 12 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-19.604° at the point of next southern standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 10 September 2073 at 08:21.
In 4 days on 2 September 2073 at 01:52 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is going to be in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.