Moon is leaving the last ∠1° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
It is Cold Moon
The Full Moon these days is the Cold of December 2038.
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 ∠1792"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1792" and ∠1949".
Lunation 481 / 1434
The Moon is 15 days old and navigating through the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 481 of Meeus index or 1434 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 15 minutes and it is 1 hour and 19 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 29 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 40 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠10.8°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠10.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠28.2°.
Moon after apogee
3 days since point of apogee on 8 December 2038 at 13:35 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 24 December 2038 at 08:23 in ♐ Sagittarius.
The Moon is 399 894 km(248 483 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 11 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 361 283 km(224 491 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♊ Gemini at 16:05 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next descending node later on 25 December 2038 at 19:56 in ♐ Sagittarius.
13 days since the last southern standstill on 29 November 2038 at 02:24 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-23.865° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠23.887° at the point of next northern standstill on 13 December 2038 at 13:26 in ♋ Cancer.
At 16:05 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.