Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 23% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 24 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 ∠3° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♌ Leo later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 2 days on 13 September 2074 at 12:21.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2074 after 18 days on 5 October 2074 at 02:55.
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 5.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1811" and ∠1909".
The Moon is 24 days old and navigating from the second to the final 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°.
4 days since point of apogee on 12 September 2074 at 02:10 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 23 September 2074 at 22:46 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 395 745 km (245 905 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 7 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 365 307 km (226 991 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♋ Cancer at 20:14 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 29 September 2074 at 14:52 in ♑ Capricorn.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 15 September 2074 at 04:44 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠21.157° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠-21.263° at the point of next southern standstill on 28 September 2074 at 04:37 in ♑ Capricorn.
At 20:14 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 4 days on 21 September 2074 at 01:28 in ♍ Virgo 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