Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
1 day after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 30 December 2026 at 18:59.
Wolf Moon after 21 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2027 after 21 days on 22 January 2027 at 12:17.
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 ∠1836"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1836" and ∠1951".
Lunation 333 / 1286
The Moon is 23 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 333 of Meeus index or 1286 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 33 minutes and it is 1 minute longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2027. 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 6 hours and 48 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 14 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠159.4°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠159.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠184.3°.
Moon before apogee
8 days since point of perigee on 24 December 2026 at 08:30 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 7 January 2027 at 08:10 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 390 322 km(242 535 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 5 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 610 km(252 656 mi).
Moon after descending node
5 days after descending node on 27 December 2026 at 07:55 in ♌ Leo 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 10 January 2027 at 15:58 in ♒ Aquarius.
8 days since the last northern standstill on 23 December 2026 at 12:33 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.620° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.636° at the point of next southern standstill on 5 January 2027 at 20:46 in ♐ Sagittarius.
In 6 days on 7 January 2027 at 20:24 in ♑ Capricorn 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.