Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
4 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 4 days on 28 December 2050 at 05:15.
Cold Moon before 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2051 after 25 days on 26 January 2051 at 21:20.
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 ∠1780"
Lunar disc appears visually 9.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1780" and ∠1951".
Lunation 630 / 1583
The Moon is 19 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 630 of Meeus index or 1583 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 40 minutes and it is 1 hour and 57 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 56 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 7 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠282.8°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠282.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠313.4°.
Moon before apogee
11 days since point of perigee on 20 December 2050 at 16:49 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 4 January 2051 at 00:04 in ♎ Libra.
The Moon is 402 744 km(250 254 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 452 km(251 315 mi).
Moon before ascending node
8 days after descending node on 24 December 2050 at 02:37 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 7 January 2051 at 05:43 in ♏ Scorpio.
5 days since the last northern standstill on 27 December 2050 at 00:57 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.815° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.761° at the point of next southern standstill on 10 January 2051 at 12:25 in ♐ Sagittarius.
In 11 days on 12 January 2051 at 18:58 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.