The Moon on this date
Moon on Thursday, April 20, 2017
Waning Crescent
37.7% illuminated · waning
Shown at midday from Columbus, US.
Rise, set and path
Times for Columbus, US
- Moonrise
- E
- Highest
- 34°
- Moonset
- W
60°30°
Horizon
3:23 AM
1:57 PM
34°
Key figures
- Illuminated
- 37.7%
- Age
- 23.5 days
- Distance
- 390,300 km
- Apparent size
- 30.6′
- Constellation
- Capricornus
- Lunation number
- 1166
Events on this date
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Mercury at inferior conjunction
Passes between Earth and the Sun and is lost in its glare.
Exact values
For Apr 20, 12:00 PM, midday on this date.
| Elongation from the Sun | 284.37° |
|---|---|
| Phase angle | 104.22° |
| Illuminated fraction | 37.72% |
| Altitude / azimuth | 18.0° / 230.2° |
| Right ascension / declination | 21h 09m / -14.92° |
| Ecliptic longitude / latitude | 315.13° / 1.44° |
| Libration in longitude / latitude | -7.77° / -1.39° |
| Sub-solar longitude / latitude | -111.31° / -1.33° |
| Position angle of the axis | 341.7° |
| Position angle of the bright limb | 73.4° |
| Apparent magnitude | -9.5 |
Directions are good to about a hundredth of a degree and the distance to about 50 km; more digits would not mean anything.