Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
7 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 7 days on 26 November 2078 at 07:54.
Cold Moon after 15 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2078 after 15 days on 18 December 2078 at 23:34.
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 ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 9.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1947".
Lunation 975 / 1928
The Moon is 28 days old and navigating from the second to the final 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
1 day since point of apogee on 2 December 2078 at 15:34 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 14 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 17 December 2078 at 21:10 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 405 353 km(251 875 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 14 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 828 km(222 965 mi).
Moon after descending node
1 day after descending node on 1 December 2078 at 18:16 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 15 December 2078 at 19:09 in ♉ Taurus.
11 days since the last northern standstill on 22 November 2078 at 03:20 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.596° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.555° at the point of next southern standstill on 6 December 2078 at 12:06 in ♑ Capricorn.
In 1 day on 4 December 2078 at 12:08 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.