Moon is passing about ∠22° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
It is Wolf Moon
The Full Moon these days is the Wolf of January 2029.
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 ∠1902"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1902" and ∠1951".
Lunation 358 / 1311
The Moon is 15 days old and navigating through the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 358 of Meeus index or 1311 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 18 minutes and it is 1 hour and 49 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 34 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 29 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠63.8°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠63.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠99.9°.
Moon before perigee
8 days since point of apogee on 23 December 2028 at 21:00 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 5 January 2029 at 04:16 in ♍ Virgo.
The Moon is 376 868 km(234 175 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 368 918 km(229 235 mi).
Moon after descending node
1 day after descending node on 31 December 2028 at 22:49 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 13 January 2029 at 21:21 in ♑ Capricorn.
2 days since the last northern standstill on 30 December 2028 at 02:35 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠25.195° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠-25.199° at the point of next southern standstill on 12 January 2029 at 00:15 in ♐ Sagittarius.