Moon is passing about ∠5° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
1 day after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 14 September 2006 at 11:15.
Hunter Moon after 21 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2006 after 21 days on 7 October 2006 at 03:13.
Neap tide
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.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1854"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1854" and ∠1908".
Lunation 82 / 1035
The Moon is 23 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 82 of Meeus index or 1035 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 35 minutes and it is 54 minutes shorter 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°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 51 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 12 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠158.8°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠158.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠182.3°.
Moon before apogee
7 days since point of perigee on 8 September 2006 at 03:07 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 22 September 2006 at 05:21 in ♍ Virgo.
The Moon is 386 634 km(240 243 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 6 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 500 km(252 587 mi).
Moon before descending node
7 days after ascending node on 8 September 2006 at 11:01 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 22 September 2006 at 03:42 in ♍ Virgo.
At 01:28 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠28.725°. This is the year's northernmost lunar standstill of 2006. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-28.712° at the point of next southern standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 29 September 2006 at 20:31.
In 6 days on 22 September 2006 at 11:45 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.