Waning
Gibbous ♊ Gemini
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 70% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 70% and getting smaller. The 20 days old Moon is in ♉ Taurus.
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Moon phase and lunation details
5 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 5 days on 30 August 2004 at 02:22.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the evening and sets in the morning. It is visible to the southwest and it is high in the sky after midnight.
Moon in ♉ Taurus
Moon is passing about ∠19° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1798"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1798" and ∠1903".
Sturgeon Moon before 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2004 after 24 days on 28 September 2004 at 13:09.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- 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
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 28 September 2004 at 13:09
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 20 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last 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 before perigee
8 days 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 3 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 8 September 2004 at 02:42 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 398 746 km
The Moon is 398 746 km (247 769 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 464 km (251 322 mi).
Moon after ascending node
1 day after ascending node on 3 September 2004 at 06:34 in ♉ Taurus. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 13 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 17 September 2004 at 14:51 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
1 day since the beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
9 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 3 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 10 days
In 10 days on 14 September 2004 at 14:29 in ♍ Virgo 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.
