The Moon on this date
Moon on Saturday, November 22, 1930
Waxing Crescent
5.9% illuminated · waxing
Shown at midday from Columbus, US.
Rise, set and path
Times for Columbus, US
- Moonrise
- SE
- Highest
- 21°
- Moonset
- SW
60°30°
Horizon
9:58 AM
6:44 PM
21°
Key figures
- Illuminated
- 5.9%
- Age
- 2.3 days
- Distance
- 389,500 km
- Apparent size
- 30.7′
- Constellation
- Sagittarius
- Lunation number
- 98
Events on this date
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Venus at inferior conjunction
Passes between Earth and the Sun and is lost in its glare.
Exact values
For Nov 22, 12:00 PM, midday on this date.
| Elongation from the Sun | 27.80° |
|---|---|
| Phase angle | 151.77° |
| Illuminated fraction | 5.95% |
| Altitude / azimuth | 14.0° / 149.1° |
| Right ascension / declination | 17h 49m / -28.09° |
| Ecliptic longitude / latitude | 267.48° / -4.66° |
| Libration in longitude / latitude | 5.39° / 6.91° |
| Sub-solar longitude / latitude | 157.15° / -0.97° |
| Position angle of the axis | 0.3° |
| Position angle of the bright limb | 281.0° |
| Apparent magnitude | -6.7 |
Directions are good to about a hundredth of a degree and the distance to about 50 km; more digits would not mean anything.