The Moon on this date
Moon on Friday, March 31, 1972
Waning Gibbous
96.7% illuminated · waning
Shown at midday from Columbus, US.
Rise, set and path
Times for Columbus, US
- Moonrise
- SE
- Highest
- 35°
- Moonset
- W
60°30°
Horizon
9:06 PM
6:41 AM
35°
Key figures
- Illuminated
- 96.7%
- Age
- 16.2 days
- Distance
- 406,000 km
- Apparent size
- 29.4′
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Lunation number
- 609
Events on this date
-
Mars and Saturn close together
They pass 2.7° apart in the sky.
-
Mercury at inferior conjunction
Passes between Earth and the Sun and is lost in its glare.
Exact values
For Mar 31, 12:00 PM, midday on this date.
| Elongation from the Sun | 200.50° |
|---|---|
| Phase angle | 21.02° |
| Illuminated fraction | 96.67% |
| Altitude / azimuth | -57.6° / 307.7° |
| Right ascension / declination | 13h 50m / -16.73° |
| Ecliptic longitude / latitude | 211.58° / -5.02° |
| Libration in longitude / latitude | -0.54° / 7.05° |
| Sub-solar longitude / latitude | -20.84° / 1.49° |
| Position angle of the axis | 20.8° |
| Position angle of the bright limb | 125.2° |
| Apparent magnitude | -12.1 |
Directions are good to about a hundredth of a degree and the distance to about 50 km; more digits would not mean anything.