Moon is passing about ∠16° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
It is Cold Moon
The Full Moon these days is the Cold of December 2042.
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 ∠1900"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1900" and ∠1951".
Lunation 531 / 1484
The Moon is 15 days old and navigating through the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 531 of Meeus index or 1484 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 24 minutes and it is 2 hours and 10 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. 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 3 hours and 40 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 23 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠232°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠232° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠269.3°.
Moon after perigee
3 days since point of perigee on 24 December 2042 at 02:12 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 4 January 2043 at 19:56 in ♎ Libra.
The Moon is 377 253 km(234 414 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 8 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 558 km(251 381 mi).
Moon after ascending node
6 days after ascending node on 21 December 2042 at 04:46 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 3 January 2043 at 07:24 in ♎ Libra.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 26 December 2042 at 13:20 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.289° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 13 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.311° at the point of next southern standstill on 9 January 2043 at 20:09 in ♐ Sagittarius.