Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 17% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 25 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 passing about ∠7° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 14 August 2074 at 18:10.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2074 after 18 days on 5 September 2074 at 13:13.
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 5.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1789" and ∠1896".
The Moon is 25 days old and navigating from the second to the final 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°.
3 days since point of apogee on 15 August 2074 at 07:04 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 28 August 2074 at 10:58 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 400 652 km (248 954 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 9 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 559 km (229 633 mi).
12 days after descending node on 6 August 2074 at 05:19 in ♒ Aquarius 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 20 August 2074 at 13:23 in ♋ Cancer.
At 20:33 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠21.021°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-21.072° at the point of next southern standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 31 August 2074 at 23:27.
25 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 4 days on 22 August 2074 at 14:59 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