The Moon on this date
Moon on Tuesday, November 16, 1920
Waxing Crescent
30.3% illuminated · waxing
Shown at midday from Columbus, US.
Rise, set and path
Times for Columbus, US
- Moonrise
- E
- Highest
- 35°
- Moonset
- W
60°30°
Horizon
11:48 AM
10:28 PM
35°
Key figures
- Illuminated
- 30.3%
- Age
- 6.0 days
- Distance
- 404,700 km
- Apparent size
- 29.5′
- Constellation
- Capricornus
- Lunation number
- -26
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 Nov 16, 12:00 PM, midday on this date.
| Elongation from the Sun | 66.56° |
|---|---|
| Phase angle | 113.19° |
| Illuminated fraction | 30.31% |
| Altitude / azimuth | 1.5° / 111.5° |
| Right ascension / declination | 20h 07m / -14.91° |
| Ecliptic longitude / latitude | 300.62° / 5.23° |
| Libration in longitude / latitude | -2.05° / -6.07° |
| Sub-solar longitude / latitude | 110.72° / 0.48° |
| Position angle of the axis | 347.8° |
| Position angle of the bright limb | 255.8° |
| Apparent magnitude | -9.0 |
Directions are good to about a hundredth of a degree and the distance to about 50 km; more digits would not mean anything.