Waxing
Gibbous ♌ Leo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 64% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 64% and growing larger. The 9 days young Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
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Moon phase and lunation details
1 day after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 1 day on 28 March 2004 at 23:48.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the afternoon and sets after midnight to early morning. It is visible to the southeast in early evening and it is up for most of the night.
Moon in ♋ Cancer
Moon is leaving the last ∠3° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♌ Leo later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1792"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1792" and ∠1921".
Pink Moon after 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2004 after 5 days on 5 April 2004 at 11:03.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 5 April 2004 at 11:03
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 12 April 2004 at 03:46
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 19 April 2004 at 13:21
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 27 April 2004 at 17:32
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 52 / 1005
The Moon is 9 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 52 of Meeus index or 1005 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.61 days
Length of current 52 lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 40 minutes. It is 51 minutes shorter than next lunation 53 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 56 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 7 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠93.6°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠93.6°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠129.7°. 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 27 March 2004 at 07:02 in ♊ Gemini. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 8 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 8 April 2004 at 02:28 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 399 903 km
Moon is 399 903 km (248 488 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 8 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 364 548 km (226 520 mi).
Moon after ascending node
6 days after its ascending node on 24 March 2004 at 04:55 in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 7 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 7 April 2004 at 05:05 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
6 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 28 March 2004 at 19:53 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠27.541°. Next 11 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-27.596° in the next southern standstill on 11 April 2004 at 00:50 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 5 days
After 5 days on 5 April 2004 at 11:03 in ♎ Libra, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.