Moon is passing about ∠10° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
4 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 4 days on 4 November 2078 at 16:56.
Beaver Moon after 10 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2078 after 10 days on 19 November 2078 at 12:52.
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 ∠1801"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1801" and ∠1938".
Lunation 975 / 1928
The Moon is 4 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 975 of Meeus index or 1928 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 12 minutes and it is 30 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2078. 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 28 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 35 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠172.1°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠172.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠196.6°.
Moon after apogee
3 days since point of apogee on 5 November 2078 at 14:46 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 19 November 2078 at 08:57 in ♉ Taurus.
The Moon is 398 083 km(247 357 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 9 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 356 690 km(221 637 mi).
Moon after descending node
4 days after descending node on 4 November 2078 at 12:25 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 8 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 18 November 2078 at 09:52 in ♉ Taurus.
At 06:39 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-27.622°. This is the year's southernmost lunar standstill of 2078. Over the upcoming 12 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠27.596° at the point of next northern standstill in ♋ Cancer on 22 November 2078 at 03:20.
In 10 days on 19 November 2078 at 12:52 in ♉ Taurus 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.