Waxing
Crescent ♉ Taurus
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 1% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 1% and growing larger. The 1 day young Moon is in ♉ Taurus.
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Moon phase and lunation details
1 day after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 19 April 2004 at 13:21.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon in ♉ Taurus
Moon is passing about ∠11° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1789"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1789" and ∠1909".
Flower Moon after 14 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2004 after 14 days on 4 May 2004 at 20:33.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- 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
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 19 May 2004 at 04:52
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 53 / 1006
The Moon is 1 day young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 53 of Meeus index or 1006 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.65 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 31 minutes. It is 4 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 2 hours and 47 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 16 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠129.7°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠129.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠158.3°.
Moon before perigee
12 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 3 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 24 April 2004 at 00:26 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 400 731 km
The Moon is 400 731 km (249 003 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 403 km (251 906 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♉ Taurus at 11:40 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 14 days later on 4 May 2004 at 15:00 in ♏ Scorpio.
New draconic month
At 11:40 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon before northern standstill
9 days 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 4 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 14 days
In 14 days on 4 May 2004 at 20:33 in ♏ Scorpio 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.
