Moon is passing about ∠12° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
4 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 4 days on 26 January 2070 at 12:59.
Wolf Moon before 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2070 after 24 days on 25 February 2070 at 02:31.
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 ∠1796"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1796" and ∠1947".
Lunation 866 / 1819
The Moon is 19 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 866 of Meeus index or 1819 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 30 minutes and it is 2 hours and 30 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 2 hours and 46 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 17 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠244.8°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠244.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠282°.
Moon before apogee
8 days since point of perigee on 23 January 2070 at 04:43 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 4 February 2070 at 01:19 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 399 163 km(248 028 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 362 km(251 259 mi).
Moon before ascending node
11 days after descending node on 19 January 2070 at 18:41 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 1 February 2070 at 20:26 in ♎ Libra.
8 days since the last northern standstill on 23 January 2070 at 11:28 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.199° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.101° at the point of next southern standstill on 6 February 2070 at 10:23 in ♐ Sagittarius.
In 10 days on 11 February 2070 at 02:52 in ♒ Aquarius 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.