Waxing
Gibbous ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 89% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 89% and growing larger. The 11 days young Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 4 days 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 ♍ Virgo
Moon is passing about ∠5° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1850"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1850" and ∠1919".
Pink Moon after 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2004 after 2 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 11 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
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 40 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 56 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 7 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠93.6°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠93.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠129.7°.
Moon before apogee
6 days after point of apogee on 27 March 2004 at 07:02 in ♊ Gemini. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 8 April 2004 at 02:28 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 387 396 km
The Moon is 387 396 km (240 717 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 5 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 364 548 km (226 520 mi).
Moon before descending node
9 days after ascending node on 24 March 2004 at 04:55 in ♉ Taurus. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 4 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 7 April 2004 at 05:05 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
9 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
4 days since the previous standstill on 28 March 2004 at 19:53 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.541°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.596° at the point of next southern standstill on 11 April 2004 at 00:50 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 2 days
In 2 days on 5 April 2004 at 11:03 in ♎ Libra the Moon is going to be in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
