Moon is passing about ∠9° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
6 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 6 days on 2 August 2046 at 10:25.
Sturgeon Moon after 8 days
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2046 after 8 days on 16 August 2046 at 14:50.
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 ∠1950"
Lunar disc appears visually 3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1950" and ∠1893".
Lunation 576 / 1529
The Moon is 7 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 576 of Meeus index or 1529 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 1 minute and it is longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest 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°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 44 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 25 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠328°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠328° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠345.8°.
Moon after perigee
4 days since point of perigee on 4 August 2046 at 09:16 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 20 August 2046 at 01:53 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 367 617 km(228 427 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 828 km(252 170 mi).
Moon after descending node
6 days after descending node on 2 August 2046 at 00:47 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 15 August 2046 at 00:43 in ♒ Aquarius.
9 days since the last northern standstill on 29 July 2046 at 22:44 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.730° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠-26.723° at the point of next southern standstill on 11 August 2046 at 15:06 in ♐ Sagittarius.
In 8 days on 16 August 2046 at 14:50 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.