Moon is leaving the last ∠3° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♊ Gemini later.
It is Beaver Moon
The Full Moon these days is the Beaver of November 2078.
Spring tide
There is high Full Moon ocean tide on this date. Combined Sun and Moon gravitational tidal force working on Earth is strong, because of the Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1973"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1942".
Lunation 975 / 1928
The Moon is 14 days old and navigating through the middle 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 at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 08:57 about 13 days since last apogee on 5 November 2078 at 14:46 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 13 days until point of next apogee on 2 December 2078 at 15:34 in ♏ Scorpio.
This perigee Moon is 356 690 km(221 637 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's closest perigee of 2078. It is 5 818 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 265 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon after ascending node
1 day after ascending node on 18 November 2078 at 09:52 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 1 December 2078 at 18:16 in ♏ Scorpio.
10 days since the last southern standstill on 9 November 2078 at 06:39 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.622° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.596° at the point of next northern standstill on 22 November 2078 at 03:20 in ♋ Cancer.