The Moon on this date
Moon on Sunday, July 5, 1908
Waxing Crescent
39.0% illuminated · waxing
Shown at midday from Columbus, US.
Rise, set and path
Times for Columbus, US
- Moonrise
- E
- Highest
- 53°
- Moonset
- –
60°30°
Horizon
11:32 AM
53°
Key figures
- Illuminated
- 39.0%
- Age
- 7.0 days
- Distance
- 400,700 km
- Apparent size
- 29.8′
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Lunation number
- -179
Events on this date
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Venus at inferior conjunction
Passes between Earth and the Sun and is lost in its glare.
Exact values
For Jul 5, 12:00 PM, midday on this date.
| Elongation from the Sun | 77.12° |
|---|---|
| Phase angle | 102.68° |
| Illuminated fraction | 39.02% |
| Altitude / azimuth | 4.5° / 88.2° |
| Right ascension / declination | 12h 10m / 4.69° |
| Ecliptic longitude / latitude | 180.34° / 5.26° |
| Libration in longitude / latitude | -4.21° / -6.58° |
| Sub-solar longitude / latitude | 97.66° / 0.21° |
| Position angle of the axis | 23.6° |
| Position angle of the bright limb | 292.4° |
| Apparent magnitude | -9.5 |
Directions are good to about a hundredth of a degree and the distance to about 50 km; more digits would not mean anything.