Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 7% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 27 days old.
The moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is leaving the last ∠1° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 16 July 2074 at 01:11.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2074 after 16 days on 7 August 2074 at 02:06.
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.
Lunar disc appears visually 5.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1784" and ∠1889".
The Moon is 27 days old and navigating from the second to the final 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°.
2 days since point of apogee on 18 July 2074 at 12:55 in ♉ Taurus 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 3 August 2074 at 03:09 in ♐ Sagittarius.
The Moon is 401 863 km (249 706 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 12 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 367 536 km (228 376 mi).
11 days after descending node on 9 July 2074 at 19:46 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 24 July 2074 at 05:30 in ♌ Leo.
13 days since the last southern standstill on 8 July 2074 at 08:12 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-21.006° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠21.003° at the point of next northern standstill on 22 July 2074 at 12:38 in ♋ Cancer.
24 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 2 days on 24 July 2074 at 03:07 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.
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