Moon is passing first ∠3° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
It is Sturgeon Moon
The Full Moon these days is the Sturgeon of August 2078.
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 ∠1905"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1905" and ∠1898".
Lunation 972 / 1925
The Moon is 15 days old and navigating through the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 972 of Meeus index or 1925 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 7 minutes and it is 3 hours 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 37 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 32 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠80.3°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠80.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠115.1°.
Moon before perigee
8 days since point of apogee on 14 August 2078 at 20:09 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 26 August 2078 at 20:12 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 376 245 km(233 788 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 366 786 km(227 910 mi).
Moon before ascending node
8 days after descending node on 14 August 2078 at 22:47 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 28 August 2078 at 09:02 in ♉ Taurus.
4 days since the last southern standstill on 19 August 2078 at 07:52 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.225° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.321° at the point of next northern standstill on 1 September 2078 at 05:56 in ♋ Cancer.