The Moon on this date
Moon on Friday, October 17, 1919
Waning Crescent
34.6% illuminated · waning
Shown at midday from Columbus, US.
Rise, set and path
Times for Columbus, US
- Moonrise
- E
- Highest
- 63°
- Moonset
- W
60°30°
Horizon
1:32 AM
3:28 PM
63°
Key figures
- Illuminated
- 34.6%
- Age
- 23.5 days
- Distance
- 382,400 km
- Apparent size
- 31.2′
- Constellation
- Cancer
- Lunation number
- -40
Events on this date
-
Venus at its brightest
Shines at magnitude -4.8, as bright as it gets this time around.
-
Jupiter, Moon, and Neptune gathered
All within 5.7° of each other in the sky.
Exact values
For Oct 17, 12:00 PM, midday on this date.
| Elongation from the Sun | 288.21° |
|---|---|
| Phase angle | 108.00° |
| Illuminated fraction | 34.55% |
| Altitude / azimuth | 37.8° / 252.1° |
| Right ascension / declination | 8h 50m / 12.48° |
| Ecliptic longitude / latitude | 131.45° / -5.07° |
| Libration in longitude / latitude | 6.21° / 7.18° |
| Sub-solar longitude / latitude | -101.40° / -0.81° |
| Position angle of the axis | 15.1° |
| Position angle of the bright limb | 103.7° |
| Apparent magnitude | -9.4 |
Directions are good to about a hundredth of a degree and the distance to about 50 km; more digits would not mean anything.