Moon is passing about ∠11° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Wolf Moon after 14 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2014 after 14 days on 16 January 2014 at 04:52.
Spring tide
There is high New Moon ocean tide on this date. Combined Sun and Moon gravitational tidal force working on Earth is strong, because of the Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1971" and ∠1951".
New lunation 173 / 1126
At 11:14 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 173 of Meeus index or lunation 1126 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 24 minutes. It is 3 minutes longer than the next 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 20 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 49 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠353°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠353° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠8.3°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 21:00 about 12 days since last apogee on 19 December 2013 at 23:49 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 14 days until point of next apogee on 16 January 2014 at 01:53 in ♋ Cancer.
This perigee Moon is 356 922 km(221 781 mi) away from Earth. It is 5 586 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 13 434 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon after ascending node
4 days after ascending node on 28 December 2013 at 00:21 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 9 January 2014 at 11:26 in ♉ Taurus.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 31 December 2013 at 04:49 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.537° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.501° at the point of next northern standstill on 13 January 2014 at 08:14 in ♊ Gemini.