The Moon on this date
Moon on Sunday, March 29, 1959
Waning Gibbous
69.5% illuminated · waning
Shown at midday from Columbus, US.
Rise, set and path
Times for Columbus, US
- Moonrise
- –
- Highest
- 32°
- Moonset
- SW
60°30°
Horizon
9:56 AM
32°
Key figures
- Illuminated
- 69.5%
- Age
- 20.3 days
- Distance
- 368,400 km
- Apparent size
- 32.4′
- Constellation
- Ophiuchus
- Lunation number
- 448
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 Mar 29, 12:00 PM, midday on this date.
| Elongation from the Sun | 247.10° |
|---|---|
| Phase angle | 67.06° |
| Illuminated fraction | 69.49% |
| Altitude / azimuth | -22.2° / 264.3° |
| Right ascension / declination | 16h 59m / -17.97° |
| Ecliptic longitude / latitude | 255.37° / 4.69° |
| Libration in longitude / latitude | 3.74° / -5.41° |
| Sub-solar longitude / latitude | -62.51° / 0.11° |
| Position angle of the axis | 7.1° |
| Position angle of the bright limb | 94.6° |
| Apparent magnitude | -11.0 |
Directions are good to about a hundredth of a degree and the distance to about 50 km; more digits would not mean anything.