Moon is passing about ∠21° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
It is Wolf Moon
The Full Moon these days is the Wolf of January 2010.
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 ∠1967"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1967" and ∠1951".
Lunation 123 / 1076
The Moon is 15 days old and navigating through the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 123 of Meeus index or 1076 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 9 minutes and it is 31 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2010. 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 6 hours and 25 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 38 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠135.6°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠135.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠164.3°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 20:36 about 12 days since last apogee on 20 December 2009 at 14:54 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next apogee on 17 January 2010 at 01:40 in ♒ Aquarius.
This perigee Moon is 358 684 km(222 876 mi) away from Earth. It is 3 824 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 11 672 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♋ Cancer at 12:30 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 14 January 2010 at 23:18 in ♑ Capricorn.
2 days since the last northern standstill on 30 December 2009 at 10:09 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠25.787° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠-25.796° at the point of next southern standstill on 12 January 2010 at 08:33 in ♐ Sagittarius.