Moon is passing about ∠15° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
It is Cold Moon
The Full Moon these days is the Cold of December 2016.
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 ∠1966"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1966" and ∠1949".
Lunation 209 / 1162
The Moon is 14 days old and navigating through the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 209 of Meeus index or 1162 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 35 minutes and it is 1 hour and 21 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 51 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 12 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠194.9°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠194.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠223.4°.
Moon after perigee
1 day since point of perigee on 12 December 2016 at 23:27 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 25 December 2016 at 05:55 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 364 663 km(226 591 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 870 km(252 196 mi).
Moon before ascending node
6 days after descending node on 6 December 2016 at 17:35 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 19 December 2016 at 04:46 in ♍ Virgo.
11 days since the last southern standstill on 1 December 2016 at 19:56 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.908° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠18.937° at the point of next northern standstill on 14 December 2016 at 21:43 in ♊ Gemini.