Full
Moon* ♓ Pisces
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Full Moon 99% illuminated
Full Moon is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 99%. The 14 days old Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 30 August 2004 at 02:22 UTC.
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Moon phase and lunation details
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises at sunset and sets at sunrise. It is visible all night and it is high in the sky around midnight.
Moon in ♒ Aquarius
Moon is leaving the last ∠2° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♓ Pisces later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1928"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1928" and ∠1900".
It is Sturgeon Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Sturgeon of August 2004.
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
Spring tide
There is high Full Moon ocean tide on this date. Combined Sun and Moon gravitational tidal force working on Earth is strong, because of the Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
Lunation 57 / 1010
The Moon is 14 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through 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
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 after perigee
2 days after point of perigee on 27 August 2004 at 05:37 in ♑ Capricorn. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 9 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 8 September 2004 at 02:42 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 371 735 km
Moon is 371 735 km (230 985 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 9 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 464 km (251 322 mi).
Moon before ascending node
7 days after its descending node on 21 August 2004 at 12:11 in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 4 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 3 September 2004 at 06:34 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
22 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
3 days after previous South standstill on 25 August 2004 at 20:48 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-27.776°. Next 9 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠27.870° in the next northern standstill on 8 September 2004 at 09:40 in ♋ Cancer.
Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy
The Moon is in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun on this date and this alignment forms Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.