Moon is passing first ∠2° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
1 day after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 11 December 2055 at 15:05.
Wolf Moon after 21 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2056 after 21 days on 2 January 2056 at 22:05.
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 ∠1968"
Lunar disc appears visually 1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1968" and ∠1949".
Lunation 691 / 1644
The Moon is 23 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 691 of Meeus index or 1644 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 41 minutes and it is 2 hours and 14 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 1 hour and 3 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 6 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠24.3°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠24.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠45.5°.
Moon before perigee
13 days since point of apogee on 29 November 2055 at 09:39 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 15 December 2055 at 10:52 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 364 160 km(226 279 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 365 611 km(227 180 mi).
Moon after ascending node
4 days after ascending node on 8 December 2055 at 02:26 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 8 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 20 December 2055 at 21:00 in ♑ Capricorn.
5 days since the last northern standstill on 6 December 2055 at 12:59 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠21.161° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-21.183° at the point of next southern standstill on 19 December 2055 at 10:14 in ♑ Capricorn.
In 5 days on 18 December 2055 at 08:15 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.