The Moon on this date
Moon on Thursday, September 15, 1904
Waxing Crescent
40.4% illuminated · waxing
Shown at midday from Columbus, US.
Rise, set and path
Times for Columbus, US
- Moonrise
- E
- Highest
- 32°
- Moonset
- SW
60°30°
Horizon
12:37 PM
10:57 PM
32°
Key figures
- Illuminated
- 40.4%
- Age
- 5.8 days
- Distance
- 382,300 km
- Apparent size
- 31.2′
- Constellation
- Ophiuchus
- Lunation number
- -226
Events on this date
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Mercury at inferior conjunction
Passes between Earth and the Sun and is lost in its glare.
Exact values
For Sep 15, 12:00 PM, midday on this date.
| Elongation from the Sun | 78.77° |
|---|---|
| Phase angle | 101.04° |
| Illuminated fraction | 40.43% |
| Altitude / azimuth | -6.8° / 106.7° |
| Right ascension / declination | 16h 42m / -16.92° |
| Ecliptic longitude / latitude | 251.18° / 5.26° |
| Libration in longitude / latitude | 8.60° / -6.29° |
| Sub-solar longitude / latitude | 108.88° / 0.12° |
| Position angle of the axis | 7.6° |
| Position angle of the bright limb | 276.5° |
| Apparent magnitude | -9.7 |
Directions are good to about a hundredth of a degree and the distance to about 50 km; more digits would not mean anything.