Moon is passing about ∠6° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Snow Moon after 15 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2011 after 15 days on 18 February 2011 at 08:36.
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 ∠1801" and ∠1947".
New lunation 136 / 1089
At 09:03 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 136 of Meeus index or lunation 1089 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 28 minutes. It is 47 minutes shorter 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 44 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 19 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠103.5°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠103.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠139.2°.
Moon before apogee
11 days since point of perigee on 22 January 2011 at 00:10 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 4 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 6 February 2011 at 23:13 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 397 934 km(247 265 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 4 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 924 km(252 229 mi).
Moon after ascending node
2 days after ascending node on 30 January 2011 at 18:29 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 14 February 2011 at 08:14 in ♋ Cancer.
3 days since the last southern standstill on 29 January 2011 at 16:26 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-24.180° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠24.080° at the point of next northern standstill on 13 February 2011 at 09:00 in ♊ Gemini.