Waning
Gibbous ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 94% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 94% and getting smaller. The 17 days old Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
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Moon phase and lunation details
2 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 2 July 2004 at 11:09.
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 ♒ Aquarius
Moon is passing about ∠12° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1944"
Lunar disc appears visually 3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1944" and ∠1887".
Buck Moon before 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2004 after 27 days on 31 July 2004 at 18:05.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 9 July 2004 at 07:34
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 17 July 2004 at 11:24
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 25 July 2004 at 03:37
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 31 July 2004 at 18:05
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 55 / 1008
The Moon is 17 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 55 of Meeus index or 1008 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.62 days
Length of current 55 lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 57 minutes. It is 57 minutes longer than next lunation 56 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 13 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 50 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠181.6°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠181.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠205.1°. 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
2 days after point of perigee on 1 July 2004 at 23:00 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 10 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 14 July 2004 at 21:08 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 368 721 km
Moon is 368 721 km (229 113 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 10 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 192 km (252 396 mi).
Moon after descending node
6 days after its descending node on 28 June 2004 at 08:37 in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 6 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 11 July 2004 at 00:59 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
20 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
2 days after previous South standstill on 2 July 2004 at 03:43 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-27.538°. Next 11 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠27.543° in the next northern standstill on 15 July 2004 at 20:46 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 12 days
After 12 days on 17 July 2004 at 11:24 in ♋ Cancer, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.