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Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 59% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 59% and getting smaller. The 21 days old Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
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Moon phase and lunation details
6 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 6 days on 28 September 2004 at 13:09.
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 is entering ♋ Cancer
Moon is passing first ∠3° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1919".
Harvest Moon before 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2004 after 22 days on 28 October 2004 at 03:07.
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
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 21 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last 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 apogee
Moon is at apogee at 22:10. It is 13 days after previous perigee on 22 September 2004 at 21:12 in ♑ Capricorn. Lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the next 12 days, until point of next perigee on 18 October 2004 at 00:03 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 404 328 km
This apogee Moon is 404 328 km (251 238 mi) away from Earth. It is 1 080 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 2 381 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon after ascending node
4 days after ascending node on 30 September 2004 at 13:30 in ♈ Aries. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 9 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 14 October 2004 at 21:47 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
4 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon at northern standstill
At 17:37 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠28.020°. Over the next 13 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-28.048° at the point of next standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 19 October 2004 at 08:00.
Syzygy in 8 days
In 8 days on 14 October 2004 at 02:48 in ♎ Libra 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.
