Moon is passing about ∠14° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
1 day after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 8 February 2005 at 22:28.
Snow Moon after 13 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2005 after 13 days on 24 February 2005 at 04:54.
Moderate tide
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1935"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1935" and ∠1944".
Lunation 63 / 1016
The Moon is 2 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 63 of Meeus index or 1016 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 42 minutes and it is 40 minutes shorter than the upcoming 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 2 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 7 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠17.1°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠17.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠36.2°.
Moon after perigee
2 days since point of perigee on 7 February 2005 at 22:09 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 20 February 2005 at 04:59 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 370 505 km(230 221 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 9 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 806 km(252 156 mi).
Moon before ascending node
9 days after descending node on 31 January 2005 at 22:49 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 13 February 2005 at 10:25 in ♈ Aries.
4 days since the last southern standstill on 5 February 2005 at 21:10 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.071° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.152° at the point of next northern standstill on 19 February 2005 at 01:13 in ♋ Cancer.
In 13 days on 24 February 2005 at 04:54 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is going to be in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.