Moon is passing about ∠19° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
5 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 17 January 2039 at 18:42.
Snow Moon after 16 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2039 after 16 days on 9 February 2039 at 03:39.
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 ∠1927"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1927" and ∠1949".
Lunation 482 / 1435
The Moon is 28 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 482 of Meeus index or 1435 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 34 minutes and it is 1 hour and 7 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 10 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 59 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠28.2°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠28.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠51.2°.
Moon after perigee
2 days since point of perigee on 21 January 2039 at 05:35 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 2 February 2039 at 01:38 in ♉ Taurus.
The Moon is 372 024 km(231 165 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 9 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 385 km(251 273 mi).
Moon after descending node
1 day after descending node on 22 January 2039 at 05:13 in ♑ Capricorn 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 5 February 2039 at 05:55 in ♋ Cancer.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 22 January 2039 at 23:27 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-23.890° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 13 days to face maximum declination of ∠23.931° at the point of next northern standstill on 6 February 2039 at 03:54 in ♋ Cancer.
In 1 day on 24 January 2039 at 13:36 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.