Moon is passing about ∠22° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
5 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 5 days on 28 January 2017 at 00:07.
Snow Moon after 8 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2017 after 8 days on 11 February 2017 at 00:33.
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 ∠1952"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1952" and ∠1947".
Lunation 211 / 1164
The Moon is 6 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 211 of Meeus index or 1164 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 51 minutes and it is 2 hours and 52 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 2 hours and 7 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 56 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠259.5°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠259.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠295°.
Moon before perigee
11 days since point of apogee on 22 January 2017 at 00:14 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 6 February 2017 at 13:59 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 367 152 km(228 138 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 4 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 368 817 km(229 172 mi).
Moon after descending node
3 days after descending node on 29 January 2017 at 22:21 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 11 February 2017 at 19:49 in ♌ Leo.
8 days since the last southern standstill on 25 January 2017 at 11:59 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.900° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.865° at the point of next northern standstill on 7 February 2017 at 18:34 in ♊ Gemini.
In 8 days on 11 February 2017 at 00:33 in ♌ Leo 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.