Moon is passing about ∠14° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
It is Cold Moon
The Full Moon these days is the Cold of December 2014.
Spring tide
There is high Full Moon ocean tide on this date. Combined Sun and Moon gravitational tidal force working on Earth is strong, because of the Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1846"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1846" and ∠1948".
Lunation 184 / 1137
The Moon is 14 days old and navigating through the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 184 of Meeus index or 1137 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 4 minutes and it is 1 hour and 26 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. 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°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 20 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 43 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠289.3°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠289.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠318°.
Moon before apogee
8 days since point of perigee on 27 November 2014 at 23:11 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 12 December 2014 at 23:02 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 388 272 km(241 261 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 6 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 584 km(251 397 mi).
Moon after descending node
4 days after descending node on 2 December 2014 at 08:32 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 16 December 2014 at 13:27 in ♎ Libra.
12 days since the last southern standstill on 24 November 2014 at 08:17 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.625° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠18.660° at the point of next northern standstill on 7 December 2014 at 09:06 in ♊ Gemini.