Moon is passing about ∠23° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
3 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 29 January 2046 at 04:11.
Snow Moon after 19 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2046 after 19 days on 20 February 2046 at 23:44.
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 ∠1844"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1844" and ∠1947".
Lunation 569 / 1522
The Moon is 25 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 569 of Meeus index or 1522 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 46 minutes and it is 20 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 6 hours and 2 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 1 minute shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠129.2°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠129.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠159.4°.
Moon before apogee
8 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 6 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 8 February 2046 at 05:11 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 388 611 km(241 472 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 6 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 331 km(252 482 mi).
Moon before ascending node
9 days after descending node on 23 January 2046 at 06:24 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 5 February 2046 at 15:45 in ♒ Aquarius.
At 11:30 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-27.313°. This is the year's southernmost lunar standstill of 2046. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠27.295° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 16 February 2046 at 04:45.
In 4 days on 5 February 2046 at 23:10 in ♒ Aquarius 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.