Moon is passing about ∠7° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
1 day after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 17 August 2014 at 12:26.
Harvest Moon after 21 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2014 after 21 days on 9 September 2014 at 01:38.
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 ∠1837"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1837" and ∠1896".
Lunation 180 / 1133
The Moon is 23 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 180 of Meeus index or 1133 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 31 minutes and it is 30 minutes shorter 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 47 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 16 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠169.2°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠169.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠192.1°.
Moon before apogee
7 days since point of perigee on 10 August 2014 at 17:43 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 24 August 2014 at 06:09 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 390 219 km(242 471 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 5 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 523 km(252 602 mi).
Moon after descending node
3 days after descending node on 15 August 2014 at 00:18 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 29 August 2014 at 13:14 in ♎ Libra.
11 days since the last southern standstill on 7 August 2014 at 04:26 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.827° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠18.750° at the point of next northern standstill on 19 August 2014 at 22:12 in ♊ Gemini.
In 7 days on 25 August 2014 at 14:13 in ♌ Leo 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.