Waning Gibbous

on 3 July 2004
Saturday

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Moon phase on 3 July 2004 Saturday is Waning

Gibbous, 16 days old Moon is in Capricorn.

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Moon phase for 3 July
2004 Saturday 12:00 UTC

2004 | July 2004

Waning Gibbous phase

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

Waning Gibbous 98%

illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on 3 July 2004,
Saturday. Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the
Moon surface is 98% and getting smaller. The 16 days
old Moon is in Capricorn.

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Moon phase and lunation

details

1 day after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before
1 day on 2 July 2004 at 11:09.

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 Capricorn
Moon is leaving the last ∠3° of Capricorn tropical
zodiac sector and will enter Aquarius later.

Apparent angular diameter

∠ 1960"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.8% wider than solar
disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are
∠1960" and ∠1887".

Buck Moon before 1 day

Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2004 after
28 days on 31 July 2004 at 18:05.

Upcoming main Moon phases

Last Quarter in Aries after 5 days on

9 July 2004 at 07:34

New Moon in Cancer after 13 days on

17 July 2004 at 11:24

First Quarter in Scorpio after 21 days on

25 July 2004 at 03:37

Full Moon in Aquarius after 28 days on

31 July 2004 at 18:05

Moderate tide
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.

Lunation 55 / 1008
The Moon is 16 days old. Earth's natural satellite is
moving from the middle to the last part of current
synodic month. This is lunation 55 of Meeus index or
1008 from Brown series.

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Synodic month length 29.62

days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and
57 minutes. It is 57 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 longer than

mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours
and 13 minutes longer than the mean synodic month
length. It is 4 hours and 50 minutes shorter compared
to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit position on 3

July 2004 Saturday
12:00 UTC

True anomaly ∠ 181.6°

At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly
is ∠181.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month
the true anomaly is going to be ∠205.1°.

Moon after perigee

1 day after point of perigee on 1 July 2004 at 23:00 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 11 days, until the Moon
reaches the point of next apogee on 14 July 2004 at
21:08 in Gemini.

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Distance to Moon 365 785 km

The Moon is 365 785 km (227 288 mi) away from
Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until
the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going
to be 406 192 km (252 396 mi).

Moon after descending node

5 days after descending node on 28 June 2004 at
08:37 in Scorpio. The Moon is located south of the
ecliptic over the following 7 days, until the lunar orbit
crosses from South to North in ascending node on
11 July 2004 at 00:59 in Taurus.

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

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Moon after southern standstill

1 day since the previous standstill on 2 July 2004 at
03:43 in Capricorn when the Moon has reached
South declination of ∠-27.538°, the lunar orbit is
extending northward over the next 12 days to face
maximum declination of ∠27.543° at the point of next
northern standstill on 15 July 2004 at 20:46 in
Cancer.

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Syzygy in 13 days
In 13 days on 17 July 2004 at 11:24 in Cancer 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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