Moon is passing about ∠13° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
It is Wolf Moon
The Full Moon these days is the Wolf of January 2048.
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 ∠1799"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1799" and ∠1951".
Lunation 593 / 1546
The Moon is 15 days old and navigating through the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 593 of Meeus index or 1546 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 54 minutes and it is 1 hour and 5 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 50 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 19 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠18.2°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠18.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠37.7°.
Moon after apogee
4 days since point of apogee on 28 December 2047 at 02:49 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 13 January 2048 at 03:53 in ♐ Sagittarius.
The Moon is 398 349 km(247 523 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 11 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 363 708 km(225 998 mi).
Moon after descending node
1 day after descending node on 31 December 2047 at 23:38 in ♋ Cancer 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 14 January 2048 at 05:27 in ♑ Capricorn.
2 days since the last northern standstill on 30 December 2047 at 11:40 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠24.565° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠-24.561° at the point of next southern standstill on 13 January 2048 at 00:07 in ♐ Sagittarius.