Moon is passing about ∠14° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
4 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 4 days on 4 December 2078 at 12:08.
Cold Moon after 9 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2078 after 9 days on 18 December 2078 at 23:34.
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 ∠1849"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1849" and ∠1948".
Lunation 976 / 1929
The Moon is 5 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 976 of Meeus index or 1929 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 42 minutes and it is 1 hour and 57 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 5 hours and 58 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 5 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠196.6°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠196.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠225.6°.
Moon after apogee
6 days 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 8 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 17 December 2078 at 21:10 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 387 676 km(240 891 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 828 km(222 965 mi).
Moon before ascending node
7 days after descending node on 1 December 2078 at 18:16 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 15 December 2078 at 19:09 in ♉ Taurus.
2 days since the last southern standstill on 6 December 2078 at 12:06 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.555° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.536° at the point of next northern standstill on 19 December 2078 at 14:06 in ♊ Gemini.
In 9 days on 18 December 2078 at 23:34 in ♊ Gemini 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.