Moon is passing about ∠11° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
2 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 2 days on 4 September 2045 at 10:03.
Harvest Moon after 19 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2045 after 19 days on 26 September 2045 at 06:11.
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 ∠1949"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1949" and ∠1904".
Lunation 564 / 1517
The Moon is 24 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 564 of Meeus index or 1517 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 48 minutes and it is 1 hour and 21 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 56 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 13 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠0.7°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠0.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠16.2°.
Moon before perigee
11 days since point of apogee on 26 August 2045 at 04:13 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 10 September 2045 at 02:20 in ♍ Virgo.
The Moon is 367 803 km(228 542 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 804 km(222 950 mi).
Moon before descending node
10 days after ascending node on 26 August 2045 at 14:00 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 9 September 2045 at 07:56 in ♌ Leo.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 5 September 2045 at 06:33 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.764° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.716° at the point of next southern standstill on 17 September 2045 at 22:27 in ♐ Sagittarius.
In 4 days on 11 September 2045 at 01:27 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.