Moon is leaving the last ∠4° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♒ Aquarius later.
It is Buck Moon
The Full Moon these days is the Buck of July 2076.
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 ∠1966"
Lunar disc appears visually 4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1966" and ∠1888".
Lunation 946 / 1899
The Moon is 15 days old and navigating through the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 946 of Meeus index or 1899 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 1 minute and it is 37 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 17 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 46 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠145.4°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠145.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠170.2°.
Moon before perigee
11 days since point of apogee on 4 July 2076 at 16:02 in ♌ Leo 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 2076 at 05:58 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 364 621 km(226 565 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 186 km(222 566 mi).
Moon after descending node
1 day after descending node on 14 July 2076 at 12:03 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 27 July 2076 at 08:20 in ♊ Gemini.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 15 July 2076 at 12:55 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-24.329° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠24.331° at the point of next northern standstill on 28 July 2076 at 15:14 in ♋ Cancer.