Moon is passing about ∠21° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
4 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 8 December 2020 at 00:37.
Cold Moon after 17 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2020 after 17 days on 30 December 2020 at 03:28.
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 ∠1969"
Lunar disc appears visually 1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1969" and ∠1949".
Lunation 258 / 1211
The Moon is 27 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 258 of Meeus index or 1211 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 9 minutes and it is 1 hour and 35 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 1 hour and 35 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 34 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠12.4°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠12.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠30.1°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 20:42 about 15 days since last apogee on 27 November 2020 at 00:29 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next apogee on 24 December 2020 at 16:32 in ♈ Aries.
This perigee Moon is 361 777 km(224 798 mi) away from Earth. It is 731 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 8 579 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon before descending node
11 days after ascending node on 1 December 2020 at 07:46 in ♊ Gemini 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 14 December 2020 at 11:03 in ♐ Sagittarius.
9 days since the last northern standstill on 3 December 2020 at 01:22 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠24.882° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠-24.879° at the point of next southern standstill on 15 December 2020 at 22:23 in ♑ Capricorn.
In 2 days on 14 December 2020 at 16:17 in ♐ Sagittarius 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.