Moon is passing about ∠13° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
1 day after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 25 August 2014 at 14:13.
Harvest Moon after 13 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2014 after 13 days on 9 September 2014 at 01:38.
Moderate tide
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1776"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1776" and ∠1899".
Lunation 181 / 1134
The Moon is 1 day young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 181 of Meeus index or 1134 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 1 minute and it is 18 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2014. 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 3 hours and 17 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 46 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠192.1°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠192.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠218.3°.
Moon after apogee
2 days since point of apogee on 24 August 2014 at 06:09 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 8 September 2014 at 03:29 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 403 571 km(250 767 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 12 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 388 km(222 692 mi).
Moon before ascending node
11 days after descending node on 15 August 2014 at 00:18 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 29 August 2014 at 13:14 in ♎ Libra.
6 days since the last northern standstill on 19 August 2014 at 22:12 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.750° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.641° at the point of next southern standstill on 3 September 2014 at 13:10 in ♐ Sagittarius.
In 13 days on 9 September 2014 at 01:38 in ♓ Pisces 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.