Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 96% 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 leaving the last ∠2° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♒ Aquarius later.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 9 August 2046 at 01:15.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2046 after 2 days on 16 August 2046 at 14:50.
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.
Lunar disc appears visually 3.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1821" and ∠1894".
The Moon is 13 days young and navigating from the first to the middle 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°).
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.
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°.
10 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 5 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 20 August 2046 at 01:53 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 393 566 km (244 551 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 5 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 828 km (252 170 mi).
12 days after descending node on 2 August 2046 at 00:47 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 15 August 2046 at 00:43 in ♒ Aquarius.
2 days since the last southern standstill on 11 August 2046 at 15:06 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.723° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠26.666° at the point of next northern standstill on 26 August 2046 at 07:50 in ♊ Gemini.
26 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 2 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.
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