Waning Crescent on

Moon phase on 20 January 2004 Tuesday is Waning Crescent, 27 days old Moon is in Capricorn.

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Lunar calendar 2004 | January 2004

Waning Crescent phase
Waning Crescent phase
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.

Waning Crescent 3% illuminated

Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 3% and getting smaller. The 27 days old Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.

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Moon phase and lunation details

5 days after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 15 January 2004 at 04:46.

Moonrise and moonset

Moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.

Moon in ♑ Capricorn

Moon is passing about ∠11° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1957"

Lunar disc appears visually 0.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1957" and ∠1950".

Snow Moon after 16 days

Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2004 after 16 days on 6 February 2004 at 08:47.

Upcoming main Moon phases

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.

Lunation 49 / 1002

The Moon is 27 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 49 of Meeus index or 1002 from Brown series.

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Synodic month length 29.47 days

The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 22 minutes. It is 51 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).

Lunation length shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 22 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 47 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit position on

True anomaly ∠15.5°

At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠15.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠33.9°.

Moon after perigee

1 day after point of perigee on 19 January 2004 at 19:25 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 31 January 2004 at 14:00 in ♊ Gemini.

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Distance to Moon 366 356 km

The Moon is 366 356 km (227 643 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 807 km (251 535 mi).

Moon after descending node

3 days after descending node on 16 January 2004 at 21:08 in ♏ Scorpio. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 9 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 29 January 2004 at 22:07 in ♉ Taurus.

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Draconic month

17 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.

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Moon at southern standstill

At 06:17 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-27.072°. This is the year's southernmost lunar standstill of 2004. Over the next 13 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠27.131° at the point of next standstill in ♋ Cancer on 3 February 2004 at 04:10.

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Syzygy in 1 day

In 1 day on 21 January 2004 at 21:05 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.

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