Moon is passing about ∠7° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
6 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 6 days on 5 December 2069 at 12:03.
Cold Moon after 15 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2069 after 15 days on 28 December 2069 at 00:50.
Moderate tide
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1773"
Lunar disc appears visually 9.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1773" and ∠1949".
Lunation 864 / 1817
The Moon is 28 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 864 of Meeus index or 1817 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 1 minute and it is 1 hour and 15 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2069. 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 6 hours and 16 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 47 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠185.4°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠185.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠211.5°.
Moon after apogee
1 day since point of apogee on 10 December 2069 at 12:50 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 19 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 31 December 2069 at 15:07 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 404 321 km(251 233 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 19 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 370 337 km(230 117 mi).
Moon after ascending node
2 days after ascending node on 9 December 2069 at 16:16 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 23 December 2069 at 17:14 in ♈ Aries.
12 days since the last northern standstill on 29 November 2069 at 13:04 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.315° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-19.339° at the point of next southern standstill on 13 December 2069 at 16:54 in ♐ Sagittarius.
In 1 day on 13 December 2069 at 17:38 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.