Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 97% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 13 days young.
The moon rises in the afternoon and sets after midnight to early morning. It is visible to the southeast in early evening and it is up for most of the night.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠23° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 31 July 2074 at 07:30.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2074 after 1 day on 7 August 2074 at 02:06.
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 2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1930" and ∠1892".
The Moon is 13 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 922 of Meeus index or 1875 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 52 minutes and it is 1 hour and 23 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 52 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 17 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠250.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠286°.
2 days since point of perigee on 3 August 2074 at 03:09 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 15 August 2074 at 07:04 in ♉ Taurus.
The Moon is 371 406 km (230 781 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 9 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 246 km (251 187 mi).
12 days after ascending node on 24 July 2074 at 05:30 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 6 August 2074 at 05:19 in ♒ Aquarius.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 4 August 2074 at 17:04 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-21.001° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 13 days to face maximum declination of ∠21.021° at the point of next northern standstill on 18 August 2074 at 20:33 in ♋ Cancer.
12 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 7 August 2074 at 02:06 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.
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