Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 87% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 18 days old.
The moon rises in the evening and sets in the morning. It is visible to the southwest and it is high in the sky after midnight.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠10° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 16 August 2046 at 14:50.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2046 after 25 days on 15 September 2046 at 06:39.
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 7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1897".
The Moon is 18 days old and navigating from the middle to the last 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°.
Moon is at apogee at 01:53 about 15 days since last perigee on 4 August 2046 at 09:16 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next perigee on 1 September 2046 at 14:28 in ♍ Virgo.
This apogee Moon is 405 828 km (252 170 mi) away from Earth. It is 420 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 881 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
5 days after ascending node on 15 August 2046 at 00:43 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 8 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 29 August 2046 at 10:45 in ♌ Leo.
8 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 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠26.666° at the point of next northern standstill on 26 August 2046 at 07:50 in ♊ Gemini.
5 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 11 days on 31 August 2046 at 18:25 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is going to be in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Moon-Earth 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