The Moon on this date
Moon on Monday, June 23, 1969
Waxing Gibbous
56.3% illuminated · waxing
Shown at midday from Columbus, US.
Rise, set and path
Times for Columbus, US
- Moonrise
- E
- Highest
- 43°
- Moonset
- W
60°30°
Horizon
2:19 PM
1:31 AM
43°
Key figures
- Illuminated
- 56.3%
- Age
- 8.7 days
- Distance
- 384,700 km
- Apparent size
- 31.0′
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Lunation number
- 575
Events on this date
-
Mercury at greatest elongation
23° from the Sun in the morning sky, its best showing before sunrise.
Exact values
For Jun 23, 12:00 PM, midday on this date.
| Elongation from the Sun | 97.10° |
|---|---|
| Phase angle | 82.76° |
| Illuminated fraction | 56.30% |
| Altitude / azimuth | -25.6° / 74.0° |
| Right ascension / declination | 12h 31m / -4.74° |
| Ecliptic longitude / latitude | 189.09° / -1.23° |
| Libration in longitude / latitude | -7.03° / 1.86° |
| Sub-solar longitude / latitude | 74.96° / 1.53° |
| Position angle of the axis | 21.7° |
| Position angle of the bright limb | 293.0° |
| Apparent magnitude | -10.3 |
Directions are good to about a hundredth of a degree and the distance to about 50 km; more digits would not mean anything.