The Moon on this date
Moon on Tuesday, September 19, 1939
Waxing Crescent
42.3% illuminated · waxing
Shown at midday from Columbus, US.
Rise, set and path
Times for Columbus, US
- Moonrise
- SE
- Highest
- 30°
- Moonset
- –
60°30°
Horizon
1:57 PM
30°
Key figures
- Illuminated
- 42.3%
- Age
- 6.2 days
- Distance
- 389,300 km
- Apparent size
- 30.7′
- Constellation
- Ophiuchus
- Lunation number
- 207
Events on this date
-
Mercury and Neptune close together
They pass 0.5° apart in the sky.
-
Mercury, Neptune, and Venus gathered
All within 6.3° of each other in the sky.
Exact values
For Sep 19, 12:00 PM, midday on this date.
| Elongation from the Sun | 80.98° |
|---|---|
| Phase angle | 98.86° |
| Illuminated fraction | 42.30% |
| Altitude / azimuth | -21.0° / 97.9° |
| Right ascension / declination | 17h 04m / -18.99° |
| Ecliptic longitude / latitude | 256.79° / 3.81° |
| Libration in longitude / latitude | 8.05° / -4.51° |
| Sub-solar longitude / latitude | 106.25° / -0.88° |
| Position angle of the axis | 6.3° |
| Position angle of the bright limb | 274.7° |
| Apparent magnitude | -9.7 |
Directions are good to about a hundredth of a degree and the distance to about 50 km; more digits would not mean anything.