The Moon on this date
Moon on Monday, November 15, 1999
Waxing Crescent
43.5% illuminated · waxing
Shown at midday from Columbus, US.
Rise, set and path
Times for Columbus, US
- Moonrise
- E
- Highest
- 33°
- Moonset
- W
60°30°
Horizon
1:08 PM
11:34 PM
33°
Key figures
- Illuminated
- 43.5%
- Age
- 7.5 days
- Distance
- 396,100 km
- Apparent size
- 30.2′
- Constellation
- Capricornus
- Lunation number
- 951
Events on this date
-
Moon and Uranus close together
They pass 0.1° apart in the sky.
-
Mercury at inferior conjunction
Passes between Earth and the Sun and is lost in its glare.
Exact values
For Nov 15, 12:00 PM, midday on this date.
| Elongation from the Sun | 82.39° |
|---|---|
| Phase angle | 97.46° |
| Illuminated fraction | 43.51% |
| Altitude / azimuth | -12.4° / 102.2° |
| Right ascension / declination | 21h 12m / -16.98° |
| Ecliptic longitude / latitude | 315.27° / -0.76° |
| Libration in longitude / latitude | -6.03° / 1.69° |
| Sub-solar longitude / latitude | 90.96° / 1.50° |
| Position angle of the axis | 341.1° |
| Position angle of the bright limb | 252.8° |
| Apparent magnitude | -9.8 |
Directions are good to about a hundredth of a degree and the distance to about 50 km; more digits would not mean anything.