Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 2% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 1 day young.
The moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠5° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 5 February 2046 at 23:10.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2046 after 13 days on 20 February 2046 at 23:44.
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 9.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1945".
The Moon is 1 day young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 570 of Meeus index or 1523 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 6 minutes and it is 1 hour and 30 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2046. 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 6 hours and 22 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 41 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 ∠159.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠184.1°.
14 days since point of perigee on 23 January 2046 at 19:02 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 8 February 2046 at 05:11 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 405 441 km (251 929 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 331 km (252 482 mi).
1 day after ascending node on 5 February 2046 at 15:45 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 19 February 2046 at 17:48 in ♌ Leo.
6 days since the last southern standstill on 1 February 2046 at 11:30 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.313° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.295° at the point of next northern standstill on 16 February 2046 at 04:45 in ♊ Gemini.
1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 13 days on 20 February 2046 at 23:44 in ♌ Leo 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
