Waning
Crescent ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Last Quarter 46% illuminated
Last Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 46% and getting smaller. The 22 days old Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 12 April 2004 at 03:46 UTC.
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Moon phase and lunation details
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises at midnight and sets at noon. It is visible to the south in the morning.
Moon in ♑ Capricorn
Moon is leaving the last ∠3° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♒ Aquarius later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1950"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1950" and ∠1914".
Flower Moon after 22 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2004 after 22 days on 4 May 2004 at 20:33.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 19 April 2004 at 13:21
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 27 April 2004 at 17:32
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 4 May 2004 at 20:33
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 11 May 2004 at 11:04
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 52 / 1005
The Moon is 22 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the last 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 after perigee
4 days after point of perigee on 8 April 2004 at 02:28 in ♏ Scorpio. 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 24 April 2004 at 00:26 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 367 646 km
The Moon is 367 646 km (228 445 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 403 km (251 906 mi).
Moon after descending node
5 days after descending node on 7 April 2004 at 05:05 in ♏ Scorpio. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 7 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 20 April 2004 at 11:40 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
19 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
1 day since the previous standstill on 11 April 2004 at 00:50 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.596°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.628° at the point of next northern standstill on 25 April 2004 at 03:32 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 7 days
In 7 days on 19 April 2004 at 13:21 in ♈ Aries 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.
