The Moon on this date
Moon on Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Waxing Gibbous
65.6% illuminated · waxing
Shown at midday from Columbus, US.
Rise, set and path
Times for Columbus, US
- Moonrise
- E
- Highest
- 53°
- Moonset
- W
60°30°
Horizon
2:41 PM
3:04 AM
53°
Key figures
- Illuminated
- 65.6%
- Age
- 8.2 days
- Distance
- 389,800 km
- Apparent size
- 30.6′
- Constellation
- Sextans
- Lunation number
- 1056
Events on this date
-
Mercury at greatest elongation
22° from the Sun in the evening sky, its best showing after sunset.
Exact values
For May 13, 12:00 PM, midday on this date.
| Elongation from the Sun | 108.08° |
|---|---|
| Phase angle | 71.79° |
| Illuminated fraction | 65.63% |
| Altitude / azimuth | -27.7° / 54.4° |
| Right ascension / declination | 10h 49m / 5.87° |
| Ecliptic longitude / latitude | 161.34° / -1.56° |
| Libration in longitude / latitude | 7.58° / 2.48° |
| Sub-solar longitude / latitude | 78.68° / 1.55° |
| Position angle of the axis | 20.9° |
| Position angle of the bright limb | 291.7° |
| Apparent magnitude | -10.7 |
Directions are good to about a hundredth of a degree and the distance to about 50 km; more digits would not mean anything.