Full
Moon* ♉ Taurus
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 October 2004 at 03:07 UTC.
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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 leaving the last ∠3° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♉ Taurus later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1838"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1838" and ∠1931".
It is Hunter Moon
The Full Moon this days is the Hunter of October 2004.
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
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 59 / 1012
The Moon is 14 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through 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
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 39 minutes. It is 37 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 1 hour and 5 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 4 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠302.8°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠302.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠327.5°.
Moon before perigee
9 days after point of perigee on 18 October 2004 at 00:03 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 2 November 2004 at 18:09 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 389 879 km
The Moon is 389 879 km (242 260 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 6 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 999 km (251 655 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♈ Aries at 21:41 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 14 days later on 11 November 2004 at 07:43 in ♏ Scorpio.
New draconic month
At 21:41 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon before northern standstill
8 days since the previous standstill on 19 October 2004 at 08:00 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.048°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.042° at the point of next northern standstill on 2 November 2004 at 01:32 in ♋ Cancer.
Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy
The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
