The Moon on this date
Moon on Thursday, November 8, 2007
Waning Crescent
1.5% illuminated · waning
Shown at midday from Columbus, US.
Rise, set and path
Times for Columbus, US
- Moonrise
- E
- Highest
- 33°
- Moonset
- SW
60°30°
Horizon
5:58 AM
4:23 PM
33°
Key figures
- Illuminated
- 1.5%
- Age
- 28.5 days
- Distance
- 406,400 km
- Apparent size
- 29.4′
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Lunation number
- 1049
Events on this date
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Mercury at greatest elongation
19° from the Sun in the morning sky, its best showing before sunrise.
Exact values
For Nov 8, 12:00 PM, midday on this date.
| Elongation from the Sun | 346.41° |
|---|---|
| Phase angle | 165.73° |
| Illuminated fraction | 1.54% |
| Altitude / azimuth | 32.1° / 192.5° |
| Right ascension / declination | 13h 54m / -16.27° |
| Ecliptic longitude / latitude | 212.32° / -4.25° |
| Libration in longitude / latitude | 1.42° / 6.36° |
| Sub-solar longitude / latitude | -165.02° / -1.50° |
| Position angle of the axis | 19.7° |
| Position angle of the bright limb | 90.5° |
| Apparent magnitude | -5.3 |
Directions are good to about a hundredth of a degree and the distance to about 50 km; more digits would not mean anything.