Waxing
Gibbous ♈ Aries
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 86% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 86% and growing larger. The 11 days young Moon is in ♓ Pisces.
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Moon phase and lunation details
3 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 3 days on 20 October 2004 at 21:59.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the afternoon and sets after midnight to early morning. It is visible to the southeast in early evening and it is up for most of the night.
Moon in ♓ Pisces
Moon is passing about ∠17° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1907"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1907" and ∠1930".
Hunter Moon after 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2004 after 3 days on 28 October 2004 at 03:07.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 28 October 2004 at 03:07
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 5 November 2004 at 05:53
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 12 November 2004 at 14:27
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 19 November 2004 at 05:50
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 59 / 1012
The Moon is 11 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 59 of Meeus index or 1012 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.49 days
Length of current 59 lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 39 minutes. It is 37 minutes longer than next lunation 60 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
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.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠302.8°
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°).
Moon after perigee
6 days after point of perigee on 18 October 2004 at 00:03 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 9 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 2 November 2004 at 18:09 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 375 830 km
Moon is 375 830 km (233 530 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 9 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 999 km (251 655 mi).
Moon before ascending node
9 days 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 3 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 27 October 2004 at 21:41 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
23 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
5 days after previous South standstill on 19 October 2004 at 08:00 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-28.048°. Next 8 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠28.042° in the next northern standstill on 2 November 2004 at 01:32 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 3 days
After 3 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.