The Moon on this date
Moon on Thursday, April 24, 1913
Waning Gibbous
82.7% illuminated · waning
Shown at midday from Columbus, US.
Rise, set and path
Times for Columbus, US
- Moonrise
- –
- Highest
- 21°
- Moonset
- SW
60°30°
Horizon
7:54 AM
21°
Key figures
- Illuminated
- 82.7%
- Age
- 18.0 days
- Distance
- 385,400 km
- Apparent size
- 31.0′
- Constellation
- Ophiuchus
- Lunation number
- -120
Events on this date
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Venus at inferior conjunction
Passes between Earth and the Sun and is lost in its glare.
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Mercury at greatest elongation
27° from the Sun in the morning sky, its best showing before sunrise.
Exact values
For Apr 24, 12:00 PM, midday on this date.
| Elongation from the Sun | 229.08° |
|---|---|
| Phase angle | 49.17° |
| Illuminated fraction | 82.69% |
| Altitude / azimuth | -41.9° / 265.0° |
| Right ascension / declination | 17h 28m / -28.40° |
| Ecliptic longitude / latitude | 262.98° / -5.14° |
| Libration in longitude / latitude | 5.52° / 7.06° |
| Sub-solar longitude / latitude | -42.85° / 0.86° |
| Position angle of the axis | 3.2° |
| Position angle of the bright limb | 98.3° |
| Apparent magnitude | -11.4 |
Directions are good to about a hundredth of a degree and the distance to about 50 km; more digits would not mean anything.