The Moon on this date
Moon on Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Waning Crescent
19.6% illuminated · waning
Shown at midday from Columbus, US.
Rise, set and path
Times for Columbus, US
- Moonrise
- E
- Highest
- 39°
- Moonset
- W
60°30°
Horizon
2:59 AM
2:08 PM
39°
Key figures
- Illuminated
- 19.6%
- Age
- 25.5 days
- Distance
- 369,700 km
- Apparent size
- 32.3′
- Constellation
- Corvus
- Lunation number
- 1087
Events on this date
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Mercury at greatest elongation
21° from the Sun in the evening sky, its best showing after sunset.
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Venus at its brightest
Shines at magnitude -4.9, as bright as it gets this time around.
Exact values
For Dec 1, 12:00 PM, midday on this date.
| Elongation from the Sun | 307.71° |
|---|---|
| Phase angle | 127.42° |
| Illuminated fraction | 19.62% |
| Altitude / azimuth | 20.8° / 232.4° |
| Right ascension / declination | 12h 55m / -11.40° |
| Ecliptic longitude / latitude | 197.10° / -5.08° |
| Libration in longitude / latitude | 1.54° / 7.43° |
| Sub-solar longitude / latitude | -125.84° / -0.60° |
| Position angle of the axis | 23.3° |
| Position angle of the bright limb | 108.4° |
| Apparent magnitude | -8.5 |
Directions are good to about a hundredth of a degree and the distance to about 50 km; more digits would not mean anything.