Waning
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
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Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Full Moon 100% illuminated
Full Moon is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 100%. The 15 days old Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 3 June 2004 at 04:20 UTC.
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Moon phase and lunation details
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises at sunset and sets at sunrise. It is visible all night and it is high in the sky around midnight.
Moon in ♐ Sagittarius
Moon is passing about ∠18° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1973"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1891".
It is Strawberry Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Strawberry of June 2004.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 9 June 2004 at 20:02
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 17 June 2004 at 20:27
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 25 June 2004 at 19:08
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 2 July 2004 at 11:09
Spring tide
There is high Full Moon ocean tide on this date. Combined Sun and Moon gravitational tidal force working on Earth is strong, because of the Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
Lunation 54 / 1007
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 54 of Meeus index or 1007 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.65 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 35 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2004. It is 38 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 51 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 12 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠158.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠158.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠181.6°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 13:10. It is 13 days after previous apogee on 21 May 2004 at 12:02 in ♊ Gemini. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 14 days, until point of next apogee on 17 June 2004 at 16:02 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 357 249 km
This perigee Moon is 357 249 km (221 984 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's closest perigee of 2004. It is 5 259 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 824 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon after descending node
2 days after descending node on 1 June 2004 at 01:20 in ♏ Scorpio. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 10 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 13 June 2004 at 22:49 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
12 days since the previous standstill on 22 May 2004 at 10:05 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.595°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-27.569° at the point of next southern standstill on 4 June 2004 at 17:29 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy
The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
