Moon is leaving the last ∠4° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♉ Taurus later.
7 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 7 days on 20 January 2072 at 06:35.
Snow Moon after 7 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2072 after 7 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 ∠1836"
Lunar disc appears visually 6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1836" and ∠1948".
Lunation 891 / 1844
The Moon is 6 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 891 of Meeus index or 1844 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 29 minutes and it is 1 hour and 11 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2072. 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 44 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 18 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠166.3°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠166.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠190.8°.
Moon after apogee
5 days since point of apogee on 21 January 2072 at 20:00 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 4 February 2072 at 06:26 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 390 499 km(242 645 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 7 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 356 546 km(221 547 mi).
Moon after descending node
3 days after descending node on 24 January 2072 at 10:50 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 6 February 2072 at 10:25 in ♍ Virgo.
9 days since the last southern standstill on 18 January 2072 at 00:05 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.436° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.364° at the point of next northern standstill on 1 February 2072 at 09:58 in ♋ Cancer.
In 7 days on 4 February 2072 at 04:55 in ♌ Leo the Moon is going to be in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.