Moon is passing about ∠15° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
1 day after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 11 December 2044 at 14:52.
Wolf Moon after 20 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2045 after 20 days on 3 January 2045 at 10:20.
Neap tide
There is low ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at big angle, so their combined tidal force is weak.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1882"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1882" and ∠1949".
Lunation 555 / 1508
The Moon is 24 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 555 of Meeus index or 1508 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 55 minutes and it is 1 hour and 37 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 5 hours and 11 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 52 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠126.5°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠126.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠156.9°.
Moon after perigee
7 days since point of perigee on 6 December 2044 at 08:05 in ♋ Cancer 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 21 December 2044 at 20:29 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 380 768 km(236 598 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 8 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 354 km(252 497 mi).
Moon after descending node
2 days after descending node on 10 December 2044 at 12:32 in ♍ Virgo 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 24 December 2044 at 21:19 in ♒ Aquarius.
7 days since the last northern standstill on 5 December 2044 at 19:56 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.056° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.031° at the point of next southern standstill on 19 December 2044 at 04:38 in ♐ Sagittarius.
In 5 days on 19 December 2044 at 08:53 in ♐ Sagittarius 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.