The Moon on this date
Moon on Sunday, June 21, 1981
Waning Gibbous
84.5% illuminated · waning
Shown at midday from Columbus, US.
Rise, set and path
Times for Columbus, US
- Moonrise
- –
- Highest
- 31°
- Moonset
- SW
60°30°
Horizon
9:44 AM
31°
Key figures
- Illuminated
- 84.5%
- Age
- 19.2 days
- Distance
- 388,300 km
- Apparent size
- 30.8′
- Constellation
- Capricornus
- Lunation number
- 723
Events on this date
-
June solstice
The longest day in the northern hemisphere and the shortest in the southern.
-
Mercury at inferior conjunction
Passes between Earth and the Sun and is lost in its glare.
Exact values
For Jun 21, 12:00 PM, midday on this date.
| Elongation from the Sun | 226.45° |
|---|---|
| Phase angle | 46.36° |
| Illuminated fraction | 84.51% |
| Altitude / azimuth | -24.4° / 267.3° |
| Right ascension / declination | 21h 18m / -17.12° |
| Ecliptic longitude / latitude | 316.62° / -1.33° |
| Libration in longitude / latitude | -6.91° / 1.90° |
| Sub-solar longitude / latitude | -52.40° / -0.86° |
| Position angle of the axis | 341.1° |
| Position angle of the bright limb | 74.2° |
| Apparent magnitude | -11.4 |
Directions are good to about a hundredth of a degree and the distance to about 50 km; more digits would not mean anything.