The Moon on this date
Moon on Monday, January 10, 1910
Waning Crescent
0.8% illuminated · waning
Shown at midday from Columbus, US.
Rise, set and path
Times for Columbus, US
- Moonrise
- SE
- Highest
- 23°
- Moonset
- SW
60°30°
Horizon
7:25 AM
4:32 PM
23°
Key figures
- Illuminated
- 0.8%
- Age
- 28.9 days
- Distance
- 384,800 km
- Apparent size
- 31.0′
- Constellation
- Sagittarius
- Lunation number
- -161
Events on this date
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Venus at its brightest
Shines at magnitude -4.9, as bright as it gets this time around.
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Mercury at greatest elongation
19° from the Sun in the evening sky, its best showing after sunset.
Exact values
For Jan 10, 12:00 PM, midday on this date.
| Elongation from the Sun | 350.36° |
|---|---|
| Phase angle | 169.93° |
| Illuminated fraction | 0.77% |
| Altitude / azimuth | 23.3° / 180.2° |
| Right ascension / declination | 18h 44m / -25.89° |
| Ecliptic longitude / latitude | 279.96° / -2.82° |
| Libration in longitude / latitude | -5.35° / 4.54° |
| Sub-solar longitude / latitude | -175.54° / -1.05° |
| Position angle of the axis | 354.3° |
| Position angle of the bright limb | 65.0° |
| Apparent magnitude | -5.0 |
Directions are good to about a hundredth of a degree and the distance to about 50 km; more digits would not mean anything.