The Moon on this date
Moon on Tuesday, December 5, 1978
Waxing Crescent
35.4% illuminated · waxing
Shown at midday from Columbus, US.
Rise, set and path
Times for Columbus, US
- Moonrise
- E
- Highest
- 40°
- Moonset
- W
60°30°
Horizon
12:02 PM
11:19 PM
40°
Key figures
- Illuminated
- 35.4%
- Age
- 5.4 days
- Distance
- 369,000 km
- Apparent size
- 32.4′
- Constellation
- Capricornus
- Lunation number
- 692
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 Dec 5, 12:00 PM, midday on this date.
| Elongation from the Sun | 72.89° |
|---|---|
| Phase angle | 106.96° |
| Illuminated fraction | 35.41% |
| Altitude / azimuth | -0.7° / 103.6° |
| Right ascension / declination | 21h 50m / -10.66° |
| Ecliptic longitude / latitude | 326.10° / 2.29° |
| Libration in longitude / latitude | 4.30° / -2.08° |
| Sub-solar longitude / latitude | 110.73° / 1.49° |
| Position angle of the axis | 338.8° |
| Position angle of the bright limb | 249.8° |
| Apparent magnitude | -9.5 |
Directions are good to about a hundredth of a degree and the distance to about 50 km; more digits would not mean anything.