Moon is passing about ∠23° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Sturgeon Moon after 21 days
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2004 after 21 days on 30 August 2004 at 02:22.
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 ∠1789"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1789" and ∠1893".
Lunation 56 / 1009
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 56 of Meeus index or 1009 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 1 minute and it is 55 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 1 hour and 16 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 47 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠205.1°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠205.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠234°.
Moon before apogee
9 days since point of perigee on 30 July 2004 at 06:25 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 11 August 2004 at 09:34 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 400 723 km(248 998 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 291 km(251 836 mi).
Moon after ascending node
1 day after ascending node on 7 August 2004 at 02:41 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 13 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 21 August 2004 at 12:11 in ♏ Scorpio.
9 days since the last southern standstill on 29 July 2004 at 13:12 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.607° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.674° at the point of next northern standstill on 12 August 2004 at 02:38 in ♋ Cancer.
In 7 days on 16 August 2004 at 01:24 in ♌ Leo the Moon is going to be in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.