Waxing
Gibbous ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 91% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 91% and growing larger. The 12 days young Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 4 days on 23 August 2004 at 10:12.
Moonrise and moonset
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.
Moon in ♑ Capricorn
Moon is leaving the last ∠1° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♒ Aquarius later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1962"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1962" and ∠1900".
Sturgeon Moon after 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2004 after 2 days on 30 August 2004 at 02:22.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- 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
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 21 September 2004 at 15:54
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 12 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 57 of Meeus index or 1010 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.55 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 5 minutes. It is 46 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the 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 21 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 42 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠234°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠234°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠269.4°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 05:37. It is 15 days after previous apogee on 11 August 2004 at 09:34 in ♊ Gemini. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 11 days, until point of next apogee on 8 September 2004 at 02:42 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 365 106 km
This perigee Moon is 365 106 km (226 866 mi) away from Earth. It is 2 598 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 5 250 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon after descending node
5 days after descending node on 21 August 2004 at 12:11 in ♏ Scorpio. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 6 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 3 September 2004 at 06:34 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
20 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
1 day since the previous standstill on 25 August 2004 at 20:48 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.776°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.870° at the point of next northern standstill on 8 September 2004 at 09:40 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 2 days
In 2 days on 30 August 2004 at 02:22 in ♓ Pisces 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.
