The Moon on this date
Moon on Thursday, January 1, 1959
Waning Gibbous
58.5% illuminated · waning
Shown at midday from Columbus, US.
Rise, set and path
Times for Columbus, US
- Moonrise
- –
- Highest
- 49°
- Moonset
- W
60°30°
Horizon
11:43 AM
49°
Key figures
- Illuminated
- 58.5%
- Age
- 22.0 days
- Distance
- 373,400 km
- Apparent size
- 32.0′
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Lunation number
- 445
Events on this date
No Moon or planet events on this date.
Exact values
For Jan 1, 12:00 PM, midday on this date.
| Elongation from the Sun | 260.41° |
|---|---|
| Phase angle | 80.27° |
| Illuminated fraction | 58.45% |
| Altitude / azimuth | -3.3° / 270.1° |
| Right ascension / declination | 12h 01m / -1.76° |
| Ecliptic longitude / latitude | 180.95° / -1.51° |
| Libration in longitude / latitude | -3.96° / 2.85° |
| Sub-solar longitude / latitude | -83.85° / 1.51° |
| Position angle of the axis | 24.9° |
| Position angle of the bright limb | 113.9° |
| Apparent magnitude | -10.6 |
Directions are good to about a hundredth of a degree and the distance to about 50 km; more digits would not mean anything.