Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 99% 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 leaving the last ∠1° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♓ Pisces later.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 29 August 2074 at 12:12.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2074 after 1 day on 5 September 2074 at 13:13.
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 1.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1873" and ∠1903".
The Moon is 13 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 923 of Meeus index or 1876 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 29 minutes and it is 46 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 2 hours and 15 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 54 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 ∠286° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠314.8°.
7 days since point of perigee on 28 August 2074 at 10:58 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 12 September 2074 at 02:10 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 382 591 km (237 731 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 7 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 457 km (251 318 mi).
1 day after descending node on 2 September 2074 at 12:11 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 16 September 2074 at 20:14 in ♋ Cancer.
3 days since the last southern standstill on 31 August 2074 at 23:27 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-21.072° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠21.157° at the point of next northern standstill on 15 September 2074 at 04:44 in ♋ Cancer.
14 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 1 day on 5 September 2074 at 13:13 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.
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