Waning
Gibbous ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 95% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 95% and getting smaller. The 17 days old Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
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Moon phase and lunation details
2 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 6 February 2004 at 08:47.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the evening and sets in the morning. It is visible to the southwest and it is high in the sky after midnight.
Moon in ♍ Virgo
Moon is passing about ∠15° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1877"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1877" and ∠1945".
Snow Moon before 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2004 after 27 days on 6 March 2004 at 23:14.
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
Neap tide
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.
Lunation 50 / 1003
The Moon is 17 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 50 of Meeus index or 1003 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.51 days
Length of current 50 lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 13 minutes. It is 1 hour and 11 minutes shorter than next lunation 51 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 31 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 38 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠33.9°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠33.9°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠59.1°. 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 before perigee
7 days after point of apogee on 31 January 2004 at 14:00 in ♊ Gemini. 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 16 February 2004 at 07:34 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 381 907 km
Moon is 381 907 km (237 306 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 7 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 368 320 km (228 863 mi).
Moon before descending node
9 days after its ascending node on 29 January 2004 at 22:07 in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 4 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 12 February 2004 at 21:44 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
9 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
5 days after previous North standstill on 3 February 2004 at 04:10 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠27.131°. Next 8 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-27.229° in the next southern standstill on 16 February 2004 at 13:51 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 11 days
After 11 days on 20 February 2004 at 09:18 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.