Waning Gibbous

on 29 December
2004 Wednesday

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Moon phase on 29 December 2004 Wednesday

is Waning Gibbous, 17 days old Moon is in Leo.

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29 December 2004
Wednesday 12:00 UTC

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2004 | December 2004

Waning Gibbous phase

Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific
Visualization Studio.

Waning Gibbous 93%

illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on 29
December 2004, Wednesday. Seen from Earth,
illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 93%
and getting smaller. The 17 days old Moon is in
Leo.

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Moon phases for next 7 days

Thu Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed

30 31 1 2 3* 4 5

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Moon phase and

lunation details

2 days after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon
before 2 days on 26 December 2004 at 15:06.

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 in Leo
Moon is passing about ∠9° of Leo tropical
zodiac sector.

Apparent angular diameter

∠ 1775"
Lunar disc appears visually 9.5% narrower than
solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular
diameters are ∠1775" and ∠1951".

Cold Moon before 2 days

Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January
2005 after 26 days on 25 January 2005 at
10:32.

Upcoming main Moon

phases
Last Quarter in Libra after 5 days on

3 January 2005 at 17:46

New Moon in Capricorn after 12 days on

10 January 2005 at 12:03

First Quarter in Aries after 18 days on

17 January 2005 at 06:58

Full Moon in Leo after 26 days on

25 January 2005 at 10:32

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 61 / 1014
The Moon is 17 days old. Earth's natural satellite
is moving from the middle to the last part of
current synodic month. This is lunation 61 of
Meeus index or 1014 from Brown series.

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Synodic month length 29.44

days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours
and 34 minutes. This is the year's shortest
synodic month of 2004. It is 9 minutes longer
than the next lunation's length. The lengths of
the following synodic months are going to
increasing with the true anomaly getting closer
to the value it has at the point of New Moon at
apogee (∠180°).

Lunation length shorter than

mean
The length of the current synodic month is
2 hours and 10 minutes shorter than the mean
synodic month length. It is 3 hours and
59 minutes longer compared to 21st century's
shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit position on

29 December 2004
Wednesday 12:00 UTC

True anomaly ∠ 345.8°

At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true
anomaly is ∠345.8°. At the beginning of next
synodic month the true anomaly is going to be
∠1.4°.

Moon after apogee

1 day after point of apogee on
27 December 2004 at 19:15 in Cancer. The
lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is
moving towards the Earth. It will keep this
direction over the next 11 days, until the Moon
reaches the point of next perigee on
10 January 2005 at 10:07 in Capricorn.

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Distance to Moon
403 787 km
The Moon is 403 787 km (250 902 mi) away
from Earth and getting closer over the next
11 days until the point perigee when Earth-
Moon distance is going to be 356 572 km
(221 564 mi).

Moon before descending

node
8 days after ascending node on
21 December 2004 at 06:51 in Taurus. The
Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the
following 6 days, until the lunar orbit crosses
from North to South in descending node on
4 January 2005 at 21:52 in Libra.

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Draconic month
8 days since the beginning of current draconic
month in Taurus, the Moon is navigating from
the beginning to the first part of the cycle.

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Moon after northern

standstill
2 days since the previous standstill on
26 December 2004 at 14:10 in Gemini when
the Moon has reached North declination of
∠27.905°, the lunar orbit is extending southward
over the next 10 days to face maximum
declination of ∠-27.938° at the point of next
southern standstill on 9 January 2005 at 11:17
in Capricorn.

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Syzygy in 12 days
In 12 days on 10 January 2005 at 12:03 in
Capricorn 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.

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fl Sources and credits

Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on
Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred
Espenak, & www.Astropixels.com

Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard

Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization
Studio, & svs.gsfc.nasa.gov

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