Moon is leaving the last ∠1° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♓ Pisces later.
It is Sturgeon Moon
The Full Moon these days is the Sturgeon of August 2086.
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 ∠1949"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1949" and ∠1898".
Lunation 1071 / 2024
The Moon is 14 days old and navigating through the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1071 of Meeus index or 2024 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 39 minutes and it is 2 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 55 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 8 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠129.5°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠129.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠157.5°.
Moon before perigee
10 days since point of apogee on 13 August 2086 at 21:28 in ♎ Libra 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 26 August 2086 at 02:04 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 367 715 km(228 488 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 359 804 km(223 572 mi).
Moon after ascending node
5 days after ascending node on 18 August 2086 at 19:24 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 31 August 2086 at 08:57 in ♊ Gemini.
5 days since the last southern standstill on 19 August 2086 at 11:08 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-22.198° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠22.092° at the point of next northern standstill on 1 September 2086 at 02:04 in ♊ Gemini.