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Moon phase on 2 July 2046 Monday is Waning Crescent, 27 days old Moon is in Gemini.
Share this page: twitter facebook linkedinWaning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 3% and getting smaller. The 27 days old Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
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Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 6 days on 26 June 2046 at 10:40.
Moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
Moon is passing about ∠21° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 1.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1862" and ∠1887".
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2046 after 15 days on 18 July 2046 at 00:55.
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.
The Moon is 27 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 574 of Meeus index or 1527 from Brown series.
Length of current 574 lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 16 minutes. It is 1 hour and 29 minutes longer than next lunation 575 length.
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 28 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours and 41 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
This lunation true anomaly is ∠274°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠304.9°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
6 days after point of apogee on 25 June 2046 at 16:40 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 5 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 7 July 2046 at 18:06 in ♌ Leo.
Moon is 384 866 km (239 145 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 5 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 367 114 km (228 114 mi).
11 days after its ascending node on 21 June 2046 at 10:29 in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 3 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 5 July 2046 at 15:30 in ♋ Cancer.
11 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
At 13:24 on this date the Moon is meeting its North standstill point, when it will reach northern declination of ∠26.701°. Next 12 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite southward direction to face South declination of ∠-26.722° in its southern standstill point on 15 July 2046 at 09:24 in ♐ Sagittarius.
After 1 day on 4 July 2046 at 01:39 in ♋ Cancer, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.