The Moon on this date
Moon on Tuesday, December 6, 1994
Waxing Crescent
18.8% illuminated · waxing
Shown at midday from Columbus, US.
Rise, set and path
Times for Columbus, US
- Moonrise
- E
- Highest
- 36°
- Moonset
- W
60°30°
Horizon
10:43 AM
9:33 PM
36°
Key figures
- Illuminated
- 18.8%
- Age
- 3.7 days
- Distance
- 372,400 km
- Apparent size
- 32.1′
- Constellation
- Capricornus
- Lunation number
- 890
Events on this date
-
Venus at its brightest
Shines at magnitude -4.9, as bright as it gets this time around.
Exact values
For Dec 6, 12:00 PM, midday on this date.
| Elongation from the Sun | 51.03° |
|---|---|
| Phase angle | 128.67° |
| Illuminated fraction | 18.76% |
| Altitude / azimuth | 12.2° / 121.1° |
| Right ascension / declination | 20h 26m / -13.91° |
| Ecliptic longitude / latitude | 305.39° / 5.16° |
| Libration in longitude / latitude | 7.46° / -5.84° |
| Sub-solar longitude / latitude | 135.86° / 0.79° |
| Position angle of the axis | 346.2° |
| Position angle of the bright limb | 252.6° |
| Apparent magnitude | -8.4 |
Directions are good to about a hundredth of a degree and the distance to about 50 km; more digits would not mean anything.