The Moon on this date
Moon on Thursday, November 17, 1966
Waxing Crescent
28.3% illuminated · waxing
Shown at midday from Columbus, US.
Rise, set and path
Times for Columbus, US
- Moonrise
- SE
- Highest
- 24°
- Moonset
- SW
60°30°
Horizon
12:30 PM
9:46 PM
24°
Key figures
- Illuminated
- 28.3%
- Age
- 5.1 days
- Distance
- 392,800 km
- Apparent size
- 30.4′
- Constellation
- Capricornus
- Lunation number
- 543
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 Nov 17, 12:00 PM, midday on this date.
| Elongation from the Sun | 64.02° |
|---|---|
| Phase angle | 115.74° |
| Illuminated fraction | 28.29% |
| Altitude / azimuth | -5.1° / 119.4° |
| Right ascension / declination | 20h 09m / -25.31° |
| Ecliptic longitude / latitude | 298.93° / -5.05° |
| Libration in longitude / latitude | 6.41° / 7.31° |
| Sub-solar longitude / latitude | 121.75° / -0.26° |
| Position angle of the axis | 347.0° |
| Position angle of the bright limb | 260.2° |
| Apparent magnitude | -9.0 |
Directions are good to about a hundredth of a degree and the distance to about 50 km; more digits would not mean anything.