Moon is passing about ∠24° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
3 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 20 December 2046 at 14:43.
Wolf Moon after 18 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2047 after 18 days on 12 January 2047 at 01:21.
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 ∠1949"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1949" and ∠1951".
Lunation 580 / 1533
The Moon is 26 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 580 of Meeus index or 1533 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 49 minutes and it is 2 hours and 16 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°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 5 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 58 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠35.1°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠35.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠60.8°.
Moon after perigee
1 day since point of perigee on 23 December 2046 at 05:06 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 4 January 2047 at 09:26 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 367 742 km(228 504 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 416 km(251 292 mi).
Moon before ascending node
8 days after descending node on 16 December 2046 at 00:01 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 28 December 2046 at 21:09 in ♑ Capricorn.
11 days since the last northern standstill on 13 December 2046 at 08:12 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.034° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-26.050° at the point of next southern standstill on 26 December 2046 at 08:09 in ♐ Sagittarius.
In 2 days on 27 December 2046 at 10:39 in ♑ Capricorn 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.