The Moon on this date
Moon on Sunday, May 5, 1957
Waxing Crescent
34.0% illuminated · waxing
Shown at midday from Columbus, US.
Rise, set and path
Times for Columbus, US
- Moonrise
- E
- Highest
- 65°
- Moonset
- NW
60°30°
Horizon
11:30 AM
1:03 AM
65°
Key figures
- Illuminated
- 34.0%
- Age
- 5.7 days
- Distance
- 372,300 km
- Apparent size
- 32.1′
- Constellation
- Gemini
- Lunation number
- 425
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 May 5, 12:00 PM, midday on this date.
| Elongation from the Sun | 71.08° |
|---|---|
| Phase angle | 108.72° |
| Illuminated fraction | 33.95% |
| Altitude / azimuth | 4.5° / 73.3° |
| Right ascension / declination | 7h 48m / 16.20° |
| Ecliptic longitude / latitude | 115.96° / -4.84° |
| Libration in longitude / latitude | -2.36° / 6.70° |
| Sub-solar longitude / latitude | 105.63° / 0.17° |
| Position angle of the axis | 10.1° |
| Position angle of the bright limb | 282.5° |
| Apparent magnitude | -9.4 |
Directions are good to about a hundredth of a degree and the distance to about 50 km; more digits would not mean anything.