Waning
Crescent ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 14% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 14% and getting smaller. The 25 days old Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 6 October 2004 at 10:12.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
Moon is entering ♍ Virgo
Moon is passing first ∠3° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1813"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1813" and ∠1922".
Hunter Moon after 17 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2004 after 17 days on 28 October 2004 at 03:07.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- 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
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 5 November 2004 at 05:53
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 25 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 58 of Meeus index or 1011 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.51 days
Length of current 58 lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 19 minutes. It is 40 minutes longer than next lunation 59 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 25 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 44 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠269.4°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠269.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠302.8°. 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 apogee
4 days after point of apogee on 5 October 2004 at 22:10 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 7 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 18 October 2004 at 00:03 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 395 332 km
Moon is 395 332 km (245 648 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 7 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 367 758 km (228 514 mi).
Moon before descending node
9 days after its ascending node on 30 September 2004 at 13:30 in ♈ Aries, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 4 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 14 October 2004 at 21:47 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
9 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
4 days after previous North standstill on 5 October 2004 at 17:37 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠28.020°. Next 8 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-28.048° in the next southern standstill on 19 October 2004 at 08:00 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 3 days
After 3 days on 14 October 2004 at 02:48 in ♎ Libra, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.