Moon is passing about ∠9° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
6 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 6 days on 12 January 2072 at 09:54.
Snow Moon after 16 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2072 after 16 days on 4 February 2072 at 04:55.
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 ∠1787"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1787" and ∠1950".
Lunation 890 / 1843
The Moon is 27 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 890 of Meeus index or 1843 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 48 minutes and it is 41 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 6 hours and 4 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 59 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠138.1°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠138.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠166.3°.
Moon before apogee
11 days since point of perigee on 6 January 2072 at 17:46 in ♋ Cancer 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 21 January 2072 at 20:00 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 401 116 km(249 242 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 490 km(252 581 mi).
Moon before descending node
8 days after ascending node on 10 January 2072 at 03:26 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 24 January 2072 at 10:50 in ♓ Pisces.
At 00:05 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-18.436°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠18.364° at the point of next northern standstill in ♋ Cancer on 1 February 2072 at 09:58.
In 1 day on 20 January 2072 at 06:35 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.