Waning
Gibbous ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
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 15 days old Moon is in ♌ Leo.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 6 February 2004 at 08:47 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 ♌ Leo
Moon is passing about ∠19° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1832"
Lunar disc appears visually 6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1832" and ∠1946".
It is Snow Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Snow of February 2004.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 13 February 2004 at 13:40
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 20 February 2004 at 09:18
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 28 February 2004 at 03:24
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 6 March 2004 at 23:14
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 50 / 1003
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 50 of Meeus index or 1003 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.51 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 13 minutes. It is 1 hour and 11 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 31 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 38 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠33.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠33.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠59.1°.
Moon after apogee
5 days after point of apogee on 31 January 2004 at 14:00 in ♊ Gemini. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 16 February 2004 at 07:34 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 391 286 km
The Moon is 391 286 km (243 134 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 9 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 368 320 km (228 863 mi).
Moon before descending node
7 days after ascending node on 29 January 2004 at 22:07 in ♉ Taurus. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 6 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 12 February 2004 at 21:44 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
7 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
3 days since the previous standstill on 3 February 2004 at 04:10 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.131°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.229° at the point of next southern standstill on 16 February 2004 at 13:51 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy
The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
