The Moon on this date
Moon on Thursday, October 5, 1916
Waxing Gibbous
64.2% illuminated · waxing
Shown at midday from Columbus, US.
Rise, set and path
Times for Columbus, US
- Moonrise
- SE
- Highest
- 30°
- Moonset
- –
60°30°
Horizon
2:55 PM
30°
Key figures
- Illuminated
- 64.2%
- Age
- 8.4 days
- Distance
- 369,100 km
- Apparent size
- 32.4′
- Constellation
- Capricornus
- Lunation number
- -77
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 Oct 5, 12:00 PM, midday on this date.
| Elongation from the Sun | 106.42° |
|---|---|
| Phase angle | 73.44° |
| Illuminated fraction | 64.25% |
| Altitude / azimuth | -31.8° / 91.0° |
| Right ascension / declination | 20h 02m / -20.23° |
| Ecliptic longitude / latitude | 298.54° / 0.24° |
| Libration in longitude / latitude | 0.07° / 0.26° |
| Sub-solar longitude / latitude | 72.92° / -1.48° |
| Position angle of the axis | 349.6° |
| Position angle of the bright limb | 257.9° |
| Apparent magnitude | -10.8 |
Directions are good to about a hundredth of a degree and the distance to about 50 km; more digits would not mean anything.