Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 97% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 13 days young.
The moon rises in the afternoon and sets after midnight to early morning. It is visible to the southeast in early evening and it is up for most of the night.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠10° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 14 February 2046 at 03:20.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2046 after 1 day 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 0.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1959" and ∠1941".
The Moon is 13 days young and navigating from the first to the middle 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°.
11 days since point of apogee on 8 February 2046 at 05:11 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 21 February 2046 at 06:43 in ♍ Virgo.
The Moon is 365 903 km (227 362 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 356 803 km (221 707 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♌ Leo at 17:48 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 4 March 2046 at 21:25 in ♒ Aquarius.
3 days since the last northern standstill on 16 February 2046 at 04:45 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.295° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.260° at the point of next southern standstill on 28 February 2046 at 17:20 in ♐ Sagittarius.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day 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