Moon is passing about ∠11° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Wolf Moon after 14 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2071 after 14 days on 16 January 2071 at 02:35.
Spring tide
There is high New Moon ocean tide on this date. Combined Sun and Moon gravitational tidal force working on Earth is strong, because of the Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1951".
New lunation 878 / 1831
At 12:15 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 878 of Meeus index or lunation 1831 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 1 minute. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2071. It is 1 hour and 44 minutes longer than the next 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 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 ∠187.9°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠187.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠214.7°.
Moon after apogee
1 day since point of apogee on 31 December 2070 at 14:10 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 13 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 15 January 2071 at 08:40 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 405 243 km(251 806 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 13 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 535 km(222 162 mi).
Moon after ascending node
7 days after ascending node on 25 December 2070 at 04:13 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 8 January 2071 at 19:49 in ♈ Aries.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 31 December 2070 at 07:48 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.553° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.487° at the point of next northern standstill on 14 January 2071 at 05:41 in ♊ Gemini.