Moon is passing about ∠19° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
1 day after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 20 December 2029 at 22:46.
Cold Moon before 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2030 after 28 days on 19 January 2030 at 15:54.
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 ∠1827"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1827" and ∠1951".
Lunation 370 / 1323
The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 370 of Meeus index or 1323 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 57 minutes and it is 1 hour and 21 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 47 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 22 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠19.9°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠19.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠39.8°.
Moon after apogee
5 days since point of apogee on 16 December 2029 at 13:58 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 1 January 2030 at 15:33 in ♐ Sagittarius.
The Moon is 392 275 km(243 748 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 364 250 km(226 334 mi).
Moon after descending node
1 day after descending node on 20 December 2029 at 15:21 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 2 January 2030 at 20:31 in ♐ Sagittarius.
2 days since the last northern standstill on 20 December 2029 at 00:22 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠23.577° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠-23.575° at the point of next southern standstill on 2 January 2030 at 08:17 in ♐ Sagittarius.
In 12 days on 4 January 2030 at 02:49 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.