Moon is passing about ∠18° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
5 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 27 January 2019 at 21:10.
Snow Moon after 17 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2019 after 17 days on 19 February 2019 at 15:53.
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 ∠1783"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1783" and ∠1947".
Lunation 235 / 1188
The Moon is 27 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 235 of Meeus index or 1188 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 35 minutes and it is 35 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2019. 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 51 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 12 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠149.4°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠149.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠175.6°.
Moon before apogee
11 days since point of perigee on 21 January 2019 at 19:58 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 5 February 2019 at 09:26 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 401 950 km(249 760 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 556 km(252 622 mi).
Moon before descending node
12 days after ascending node on 20 January 2019 at 22:48 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 3 February 2019 at 06:35 in ♑ Capricorn.
At 00:48 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-21.547°. This is the year's southernmost lunar standstill of 2019. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠21.590° at the point of next northern standstill in ♋ Cancer on 16 February 2019 at 09:56.
In 2 days on 4 February 2019 at 21:04 in ♒ Aquarius 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.