Waning
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 97% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 97% and getting smaller. The 16 days old Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
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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 3 June 2004 at 04:20.
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 is entering ♑ Capricorn
Moon is passing first ∠3° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1972"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1891".
Strawberry Moon before 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2004 after 27 days on 2 July 2004 at 11:09.
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
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 54 / 1007
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 54 of Meeus index or 1007 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.65 days
Length of current 54 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 next lunation 55 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 51 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 12 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠158.3°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠158.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠181.6°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon after perigee
1 day after point of perigee on 3 June 2004 at 13:10 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 17 June 2004 at 16:02 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 363 540 km
Moon is 363 540 km (225 893 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 13 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 575 km (252 634 mi).
Moon after descending node
3 days after its descending node on 1 June 2004 at 01:20 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 13 June 2004 at 22:49 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
17 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 17:29 on this date the Moon is meeting its South standstill point, when it will reach southern declination of ∠-27.569°. Next 14 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite northward direction to face North declination of ∠27.532° in its northern standstill point on 18 June 2004 at 15:35 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 13 days
After 13 days on 17 June 2004 at 20:27 in ♊ Gemini, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.