Waning
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 81% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 81% and getting smaller. The 19 days old Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
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Moon phase and lunation details
3 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days 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 ♑ Capricorn
Moon is passing about ∠9° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1968"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1968" and ∠1901".
Flower Moon before 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2004 after 25 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 19 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
Length of current 53 lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 31 minutes. It is 4 minutes shorter than next lunation 54 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 47 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 16 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠129.7°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠129.7°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠158.3°. 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 perigee
2 days after point of perigee on 6 May 2004 at 04:29 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 13 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 21 May 2004 at 12:02 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 364 201 km
Moon is 364 201 km (226 304 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 13 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 262 km (252 440 mi).
Moon after descending node
3 days after its descending node on 4 May 2004 at 15:00 in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 9 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 17 May 2004 at 18:17 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
18 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon in southern standstill
At 08:08 on this date the Moon is meeting its South standstill point, when it will reach southern declination of ∠-27.623°. Next 13 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite northward direction to face North declination of ∠27.595° in its northern standstill point on 22 May 2004 at 10:05 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 10 days
After 10 days on 19 May 2004 at 04:52 in ♉ Taurus, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.