The Moon on this date
Moon on Wednesday, March 2, 1921
Waning Crescent
39.4% illuminated · waning
Shown at midday from Columbus, US.
Rise, set and path
Times for Columbus, US
- Moonrise
- SE
- Highest
- 30°
- Moonset
- SW
60°30°
Horizon
2:15 AM
12:19 PM
30°
Key figures
- Illuminated
- 39.4%
- Age
- 22.7 days
- Distance
- 402,300 km
- Apparent size
- 29.7′
- Constellation
- Ophiuchus
- Lunation number
- -23
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 Mar 2, 12:00 PM, midday on this date.
| Elongation from the Sun | 282.41° |
|---|---|
| Phase angle | 102.23° |
| Illuminated fraction | 39.41% |
| Altitude / azimuth | 2.7° / 241.6° |
| Right ascension / declination | 17h 35m / -19.07° |
| Ecliptic longitude / latitude | 264.01° / 4.25° |
| Libration in longitude / latitude | 3.39° / -4.86° |
| Sub-solar longitude / latitude | -98.18° / 1.14° |
| Position angle of the axis | 3.7° |
| Position angle of the bright limb | 93.5° |
| Apparent magnitude | -9.5 |
Directions are good to about a hundredth of a degree and the distance to about 50 km; more digits would not mean anything.