Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 97% 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 passing first ∠1° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 6 days on 7 September 2046 at 09:07.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2046 after 1 day on 15 September 2046 at 06:39.
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.
Lunar disc appears visually 6.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1782" and ∠1907".
The Moon is 13 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 577 of Meeus index or 1530 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 1 minute and it is 52 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
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 ∠345.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠1.2°.
11 days since point of perigee on 1 September 2046 at 14:28 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 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 16 September 2046 at 10:11 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 402 139 km (249 878 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 400 km (252 525 mi).
2 days after ascending node on 11 September 2046 at 05:06 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 25 September 2046 at 17:54 in ♋ Cancer.
5 days since the last southern standstill on 7 September 2046 at 20:58 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.607° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠26.482° at the point of next northern standstill on 22 September 2046 at 15:17 in ♊ Gemini.
2 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 1 day on 15 September 2046 at 06:39 in ♓ Pisces 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