Waning
Gibbous ♐ Sagittarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 96% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 96% and getting smaller. The 16 days old Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
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Moon phase and lunation details
1 day after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 4 May 2004 at 20:33.
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 ♐ Sagittarius
Moon is passing about ∠9° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1971"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1971" and ∠1901".
Flower Moon before 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2004 after 27 days on 3 June 2004 at 04:20.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 11 May 2004 at 11:04
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 19 May 2004 at 04:52
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 27 May 2004 at 07:57
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 3 June 2004 at 04:20
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 16 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last 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 at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 04:29. It is 12 days after previous apogee on 24 April 2004 at 00:26 in ♊ Gemini. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 15 days, until point of next apogee on 21 May 2004 at 12:02 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 359 812 km
This perigee Moon is 359 812 km (223 577 mi) away from Earth. It is 2 696 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 10 544 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon after descending node
1 day after descending node on 4 May 2004 at 15:00 in ♏ Scorpio. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 11 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 17 May 2004 at 18:17 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
16 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 before southern standstill
11 days since the previous standstill on 25 April 2004 at 03:32 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.628°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-27.623° at the point of next southern standstill on 8 May 2004 at 08:08 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 12 days
In 12 days on 19 May 2004 at 04:52 in ♉ Taurus 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.
