Moon is passing about ∠18° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
5 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 7 December 2077 at 07:25.
Cold Moon after 16 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2077 after 16 days on 29 December 2077 at 10:45.
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 ∠1784"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1784" and ∠1949".
Lunation 963 / 1916
The Moon is 26 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 963 of Meeus index or 1916 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 6 minutes and it is 1 hour and 58 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 4 hours and 22 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 41 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠222.6°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠222.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠258.6°.
Moon after apogee
3 days since point of apogee on 9 December 2077 at 10:56 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 25 December 2077 at 02:40 in ♉ Taurus.
The Moon is 401 741 km(249 630 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 12 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 368 754 km(229 133 mi).
Moon before descending node
13 days after ascending node on 29 November 2077 at 05:49 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 13 December 2077 at 09:35 in ♏ Scorpio.
10 days since the last northern standstill on 2 December 2077 at 01:46 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.488° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-26.467° at the point of next southern standstill on 16 December 2077 at 13:36 in ♑ Capricorn.
In 2 days on 15 December 2077 at 10:06 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.