Moon is leaving the last ∠2° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♌ Leo later.
2 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 2 days on 17 June 2004 at 20:27.
Buck Moon after 11 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2004 after 11 days on 2 July 2004 at 11:09.
Neap tide
There is low ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at big angle, so their combined tidal force is weak.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1784"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1784" and ∠1888".
Lunation 55 / 1008
The Moon is 2 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 55 of Meeus index or 1008 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 57 minutes and it is 57 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit 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 13 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 50 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠181.6°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠181.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠205.1°.
Moon after apogee
2 days since point of apogee on 17 June 2004 at 16:02 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 1 July 2004 at 23:00 in ♐ Sagittarius.
The Moon is 401 834 km(249 688 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 11 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 450 km(222 109 mi).
Moon after ascending node
6 days after ascending node on 13 June 2004 at 22:49 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 28 June 2004 at 08:37 in ♏ Scorpio.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 18 June 2004 at 15:35 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.532° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.538° at the point of next southern standstill on 2 July 2004 at 03:43 in ♑ Capricorn.
In 11 days on 2 July 2004 at 11:09 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is going to be in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.