Waxing
Crescent ♏ Scorpio
Moon phase on 15 October 2004 Friday is Waxing Crescent, 1 day young Moon is in Scorpio.
Share this page: twitter facebook linkedinWaxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 2% and growing larger. The 1 day young Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
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Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 14 October 2004 at 02:48.
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon is passing about ∠10° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 0% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1925" and ∠1925".
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2004 after 12 days on 28 October 2004 at 03:07.
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
The Moon is 1 day young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 59 of Meeus index or 1012 from Brown series.
Length of current 59 lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 39 minutes. It is 37 minutes longer than next lunation 60 length.
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 5 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 4 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
This lunation true anomaly is ∠302.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠327.5°. 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°).
9 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 2 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 18 October 2004 at 00:03 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Moon is 372 277 km (231 322 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 2 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 367 758 km (228 514 mi).
1 day after its descending node on 14 October 2004 at 21:47 in ♎ Libra, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 12 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 27 October 2004 at 21:41 in ♈ Aries.
14 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
9 days after previous North standstill on 5 October 2004 at 17:37 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠28.020°. Next 3 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.
After 12 days on 28 October 2004 at 03:07 in ♉ Taurus, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.