Moon is passing about ∠14° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
2 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 31 January 2048 at 00:14.
Wolf Moon before 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2048 after 27 days on 29 February 2048 at 14:38.
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 ∠1893"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1893" and ∠1947".
Lunation 594 / 1547
The Moon is 17 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 594 of Meeus index or 1547 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 59 minutes and it is 57 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 15 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 48 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠37.7°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠37.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠64.6°.
Moon before perigee
8 days since point of apogee on 24 January 2048 at 21:24 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 9 February 2048 at 09:12 in ♐ Sagittarius.
The Moon is 378 549 km(235 219 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 129 km(229 366 mi).
Moon after descending node
5 days after descending node on 28 January 2048 at 06:52 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 8 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 10 February 2048 at 12:30 in ♑ Capricorn.
6 days since the last northern standstill on 26 January 2048 at 19:32 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠24.528° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-24.460° at the point of next southern standstill on 9 February 2048 at 07:42 in ♐ Sagittarius.
In 11 days on 14 February 2048 at 00:31 in ♓ Pisces 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.