The Moon on this date
Moon on Sunday, November 9, 1952
Last Quarter
49.6% illuminated · waning
Shown at midday from Columbus, US.
Rise, set and path
Times for Columbus, US
- Moonrise
- –
- Highest
- 66°
- Moonset
- W
60°30°
Horizon
1:32 PM
66°
Key figures
- Illuminated
- 49.6%
- Age
- 21.8 days
- Distance
- 404,100 km
- Apparent size
- 29.6′
- Constellation
- Cancer
- Lunation number
- 369
Events on this date
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Last Quarter
Half of the disc is lit. The Moon rises around midnight and is up through the morning.
-
Mercury at greatest elongation
23° from the Sun in the evening sky, its best showing after sunset.
Exact values
For Nov 9, 12:00 PM, midday on this date.
| Elongation from the Sun | 270.57° |
|---|---|
| Phase angle | 90.42° |
| Illuminated fraction | 49.64% |
| Altitude / azimuth | 16.2° / 276.1° |
| Right ascension / declination | 9h 21m / 15.42° |
| Ecliptic longitude / latitude | 137.82° / -0.08° |
| Libration in longitude / latitude | 0.63° / 0.81° |
| Sub-solar longitude / latitude | -89.27° / -1.56° |
| Position angle of the axis | 16.1° |
| Position angle of the bright limb | 107.6° |
| Apparent magnitude | -10.0 |
Directions are good to about a hundredth of a degree and the distance to about 50 km; more digits would not mean anything.