Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
3 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 3 days on 4 July 2046 at 01:39.
Buck Moon after 10 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2046 after 10 days on 18 July 2046 at 00:55.
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 ∠1963"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1963" and ∠1887".
Lunation 575 / 1528
The Moon is 4 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 575 of Meeus index or 1528 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 47 minutes and it is 47 minutes longer 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 57 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 12 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠304.9°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠304.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠328°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 18:06 about 12 days since last apogee on 25 June 2046 at 16:40 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next apogee on 23 July 2046 at 10:37 in ♈ Aries.
This perigee Moon is 367 114 km(228 114 mi) away from Earth. It is 4 606 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 3 242 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon after descending node
1 day after descending node on 5 July 2046 at 15:30 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 18 July 2046 at 17:49 in ♑ Capricorn.
4 days since the last northern standstill on 2 July 2046 at 13:24 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.701° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠-26.722° at the point of next southern standstill on 15 July 2046 at 09:24 in ♐ Sagittarius.
In 10 days on 18 July 2046 at 00:55 in ♒ Aquarius 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.