Waxing
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
First Quarter 60% illuminated
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 60% and growing larger. The 8 days young Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 21 September 2004 at 15:54 UTC.
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Moon phase and lunation details
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises at noon and sets at midnight. It is visible high in the southern sky in early evening.
Moon in ♑ Capricorn
Moon is passing about ∠11° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1972"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1912".
Harvest Moon after 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2004 after 6 days on 28 September 2004 at 13:09.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 28 September 2004 at 13:09
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 6 October 2004 at 10:12
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 14 October 2004 at 02:48
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 20 October 2004 at 21:59
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 58 / 1011
The Moon is 8 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 58 of Meeus index or 1011 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.51 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 19 minutes. It is 40 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 25 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 44 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠269.4°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠269.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠302.8°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 21:12. It is 14 days after previous apogee on 8 September 2004 at 02:42 in ♋ Cancer. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 13 days, until point of next apogee on 5 October 2004 at 22:10 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 369 600 km
This perigee Moon is 369 600 km (229 659 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's farthest perigee of 2004. It is 7 092 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 756 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon after descending node
4 days after descending node on 17 September 2004 at 14:51 in ♎ Libra. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 8 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 30 September 2004 at 13:30 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
19 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 at southern standstill
At 02:36 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-27.958°. Over the next 13 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠28.020° at the point of next standstill in ♊ Gemini on 5 October 2004 at 17:37.
Syzygy in 6 days
In 6 days on 28 September 2004 at 13:09 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.
