Waxing
Crescent ♏ Scorpio
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 20% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 20% and growing larger. The 4 days young Moon is in ♎ Libra.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 4 days on 16 August 2004 at 01:24.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon in ♎ Libra
Moon is passing about ∠21° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1903"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1903" and ∠1897".
Sturgeon Moon after 9 days
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2004 after 9 days on 30 August 2004 at 02:22.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 23 August 2004 at 10:12
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 30 August 2004 at 02:22
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 6 September 2004 at 15:11
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 14 September 2004 at 14:29
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.
Lunation 57 / 1010
The Moon is 4 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 57 of Meeus index or 1010 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.55 days
Length of current 57 lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 5 minutes. It is 46 minutes longer than next lunation 58 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 21 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 6 hours and 42 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠234°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠234°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠269.4°. 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 before perigee
9 days after point of apogee on 11 August 2004 at 09:34 in ♊ Gemini. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 6 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 27 August 2004 at 05:37 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 376 642 km
Moon is 376 642 km (234 034 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 6 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 365 106 km (226 866 mi).
Moon before descending node
13 days after its ascending node on 7 August 2004 at 02:41 in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next day, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 21 August 2004 at 12:11 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
13 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
8 days after previous North standstill on 12 August 2004 at 02:38 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠27.674°. Next 5 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-27.776° in the next southern standstill on 25 August 2004 at 20:48 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 9 days
After 9 days on 30 August 2004 at 02:22 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.