The Moon on this date
Moon on Friday, August 17, 2007
Waxing Crescent
20.5% illuminated · waxing
Shown at midday from Columbus, US.
Rise, set and path
Times for Columbus, US
- Moonrise
- E
- Highest
- 38°
- Moonset
- W
60°30°
Horizon
11:24 AM
10:24 PM
38°
Key figures
- Illuminated
- 20.5%
- Age
- 4.7 days
- Distance
- 403,300 km
- Apparent size
- 29.6′
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Lunation number
- 1047
Events on this date
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Venus at inferior conjunction
Passes between Earth and the Sun and is lost in its glare.
Exact values
For Aug 17, 12:00 PM, midday on this date.
| Elongation from the Sun | 53.62° |
|---|---|
| Phase angle | 126.18° |
| Illuminated fraction | 20.48% |
| Altitude / azimuth | 5.6° / 109.1° |
| Right ascension / declination | 13h 01m / -10.26° |
| Ecliptic longitude / latitude | 198.01° / -3.46° |
| Libration in longitude / latitude | 2.00° / 4.81° |
| Sub-solar longitude / latitude | 127.50° / 0.36° |
| Position angle of the axis | 21.4° |
| Position angle of the bright limb | 295.2° |
| Apparent magnitude | -8.3 |
Directions are good to about a hundredth of a degree and the distance to about 50 km; more digits would not mean anything.