Crescent ♐ Sagittarius
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 2 days on 15 January 2069 at 12:16.
Moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
Moon is passing first ∠2° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 7.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1803" and ∠1950".
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2069 after 18 days on 6 February 2069 at 05:29.
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.
The Moon is 24 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 853 of Meeus index or 1806 from Brown series.
Length of current 853 lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 52 minutes. It is 2 hours and 11 minutes longer than next lunation 854 length.
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 8 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 55 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
This lunation true anomaly is ∠279.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠310.8°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
3 days after point of apogee on 14 January 2069 at 12:33 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 7 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 26 January 2069 at 07:47 in ♓ Pisces.
Moon is 397 477 km (246 981 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 7 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 366 478 km (227 719 mi).
1 day after its ascending node on 17 January 2069 at 13:49 in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 12 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 30 January 2069 at 12:42 in ♉ Taurus.
1 day after beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
13 days after previous North standstill on 5 January 2069 at 11:24 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠20.637°. Next day the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-20.561° in the next southern standstill on 19 January 2069 at 21:30 in ♐ Sagittarius.
After 4 days on 23 January 2069 at 03:36 in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.