Moon is passing about ∠16° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Snow Moon after 21 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2005 after 21 days on 24 February 2005 at 04:54.
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 ∠1915"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1915" and ∠1947".
Lunation 62 / 1015
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 62 of Meeus index or 1015 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 25 minutes and it is 17 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2005. 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 19 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 50 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠1.4°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠1.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠17.1°.
Moon before perigee
9 days since point of apogee on 23 January 2005 at 18:54 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 7 February 2005 at 22:09 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 374 271 km(232 561 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 5 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 564 km(222 801 mi).
Moon after descending node
1 day after descending node on 31 January 2005 at 22:49 in ♎ Libra 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 13 February 2005 at 10:25 in ♈ Aries.
10 days since the last northern standstill on 22 January 2005 at 19:22 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.973° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.071° at the point of next southern standstill on 5 February 2005 at 21:10 in ♐ Sagittarius.
In 6 days on 8 February 2005 at 22:28 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.