Waning
Gibbous ♈ Aries
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Full Moon 100% illuminated
Full Moon is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 100%. The 14 days old Moon is in ♈ Aries.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 28 September 2004 at 13:09 UTC.
Moon phases for next 7 days
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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 ♈ Aries
Moon is passing about ∠5° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1872"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1872" and ∠1915".
It is Harvest Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Harvest of September 2004.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- 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
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 28 October 2004 at 03:07
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 58 / 1011
The Moon is 14 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle 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 after perigee
5 days after point of perigee on 22 September 2004 at 21:12 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 7 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 5 October 2004 at 22:10 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 382 894 km
The Moon is 382 894 km (237 919 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 7 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 328 km (251 238 mi).
Moon before ascending node
10 days after descending node on 17 September 2004 at 14:51 in ♎ Libra. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 2 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 30 September 2004 at 13:30 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
25 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
6 days since the previous standstill on 22 September 2004 at 02:36 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.958°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.020° at the point of next northern standstill on 5 October 2004 at 17:37 in ♊ Gemini.
Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy
The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
