Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 99% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 13 days young.
The moon rises in the afternoon and sets after midnight to early morning. It is visible to the southeast in early evening and it is up for most of the night.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is leaving the last ∠4° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 25 June 2004 at 19:08.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2004 after 1 day on 2 July 2004 at 11:09.
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.
Lunar disc appears visually 4.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1887".
The Moon is 13 days young and navigating from the first to the middle 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°).
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.
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 is at perigee at 23:00 about 14 days since last apogee on 17 June 2004 at 16:02 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 13 days until point of next apogee on 14 July 2004 at 21:08 in ♊ Gemini.
This perigee Moon is 357 450 km (222 109 mi) away from Earth. It is 5 058 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 12 906 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
3 days after descending node on 28 June 2004 at 08:37 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 11 July 2004 at 00:59 in ♉ Taurus.
12 days 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 day to face maximum declination of ∠-27.538° at the point of next southern standstill on 2 July 2004 at 03:43 in ♑ Capricorn.
17 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day 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.
Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com
Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov