Crescent ♍ Virgo
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 2 days on 15 July 2072 at 17:56.
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon is passing about ∠5° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 4.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1888".
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2072 after 11 days on 30 July 2072 at 00:17.
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.
The Moon is 3 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 897 of Meeus index or 1850 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 25 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2072. It is 21 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 19 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 50 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠333.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠350.4°.
1 day after point of perigee on 17 July 2072 at 07:53 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 14 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 1 August 2072 at 19:10 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 363 299 km (225 744 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 14 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 886 km (252 206 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♍ Virgo at 20:41 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 14 days later on 1 August 2072 at 17:10 in ♓ Pisces.
At 20:41 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
4 days since the previous standstill on 14 July 2072 at 10:48 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.668°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.639° at the point of next southern standstill on 27 July 2072 at 08:30 in ♑ Capricorn.
In 11 days on 30 July 2072 at 00:17 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is going to be in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.