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
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 after perigee
2 days after point of perigee on 6 May 2004 at 04:29 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 13 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 21 May 2004 at 12:02 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 364 201 km
The Moon is 364 201 km (226 304 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 13 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 262 km (252 440 mi).
Moon after descending node
3 days after descending node on 4 May 2004 at 15:00 in ♏ Scorpio. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 9 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 17 May 2004 at 18:17 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
18 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 at southern standstill
At 08:08 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-27.623°. Over the next 13 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠27.595° at the point of next standstill in ♋ Cancer on 22 May 2004 at 10:05.
Syzygy in 10 days
In 10 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.
