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Moon ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 96% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 96% and growing larger. The 13 days young Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
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Moon phase and lunation details
5 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 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 ♒ Aquarius
Moon is passing about ∠14° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1947"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1947" and ∠1900".
Sturgeon Moon after 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2004 after 1 day 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
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 57 / 1010
The Moon is 13 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 after perigee
1 day after point of perigee on 27 August 2004 at 05:37 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 10 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 8 September 2004 at 02:42 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 368 115 km
The Moon is 368 115 km (228 736 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 464 km (251 322 mi).
Moon before ascending node
6 days after descending node on 21 August 2004 at 12:11 in ♏ Scorpio. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 3 September 2004 at 06:34 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
21 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
2 days 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 10 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 1 day
In 1 day 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.
