Moon is passing first ∠0° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
6 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 6 days on 25 December 2097 at 15:20.
Wolf Moon after 15 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2098 after 15 days on 17 January 2098 at 10:36.
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 ∠1774"
Lunar disc appears visually 9.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1774" and ∠1951".
Lunation 1211 / 2164
The Moon is 28 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1211 of Meeus index or 2164 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 6 minutes and it is 16 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2098. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 6 hours and 22 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 41 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠145.6°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠145.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠172.3°.
Moon before apogee
12 days since point of perigee on 19 December 2097 at 17:43 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 3 January 2098 at 11:59 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 403 945 km(251 000 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 688 km(252 704 mi).
Moon after descending node
4 days after descending node on 27 December 2097 at 16:48 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 11 January 2098 at 08:24 in ♈ Aries.
At 23:06 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-27.839°. This is the year's southernmost lunar standstill of 2098. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠27.895° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 15 January 2098 at 22:37.
In 1 day on 2 January 2098 at 14:32 in ♑ Capricorn 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.