Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 4% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 2 days young.
The moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is leaving the last ∠3° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♌ Leo later.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 24 June 2074 at 13:38.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2074 after 12 days on 8 July 2074 at 17:05.
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.
Lunar disc appears visually 3.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1823" and ∠1887".
The Moon is 2 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 921 of Meeus index or 1874 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 28 minutes and it is 1 hour and 36 minutes longer 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°).
The length of the current synodic month is 44 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 19 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠218.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠250.9°.
5 days since point of apogee on 20 June 2074 at 21:28 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 6 July 2074 at 14:26 in ♐ Sagittarius.
The Moon is 393 218 km (244 334 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 362 554 km (225 281 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♋ Cancer at 23:07 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next descending node later on 9 July 2074 at 19:46 in ♑ Capricorn.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 25 June 2074 at 05:18 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠21.016° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠-21.006° at the point of next southern standstill on 8 July 2074 at 08:12 in ♑ Capricorn.
At 23:07 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.
In 12 days on 8 July 2074 at 17:05 in ♑ Capricorn 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.
Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com
Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov