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Moon ♋ Cancer
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Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Full Moon 100% illuminated
Full Moon is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 100%. The 14 days old Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 7 January 2004 at 15:40 UTC.
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Moon phase and lunation details
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises at sunset and sets at sunrise. It is visible all night and it is high in the sky around midnight.
Moon in ♋ Cancer
Moon is passing about ∠15° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1789"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1789" and ∠1951".
It is Wolf Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Wolf of January 2004.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 15 January 2004 at 04:46
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 21 January 2004 at 21:05
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 29 January 2004 at 06:03
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 6 February 2004 at 08:47
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.
Lunation 49 / 1002
The Moon is 14 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 49 of Meeus index or 1002 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.47 days
Length of current 49 lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 22 minutes. It is 51 minutes shorter than next lunation 50 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 22 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 47 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠15.5°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠15.5°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠33.9°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon after apogee
3 days after point of apogee on 3 January 2004 at 20:19 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 12 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 19 January 2004 at 19:25 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 400 611 km
Moon is 400 611 km (248 928 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 12 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 362 768 km (225 414 mi).
Moon after ascending node
4 days after its ascending node on 2 January 2004 at 20:11 in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 9 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 16 January 2004 at 21:08 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
4 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
1 day after previous North standstill on 6 January 2004 at 21:36 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠27.031°. Next 12 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-27.072° in the next southern standstill on 20 January 2004 at 06:17 in ♑ Capricorn.
Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy
The Moon is in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun on this date and this alignment forms Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.