The Moon on this date
Moon on Tuesday, January 7, 2025
Waxing Gibbous
58.2% illuminated · waxing
Shown at midday from Columbus, US.
Rise, set and path
Times for Columbus, US
- Moonrise
- E
- Highest
- 64°
- Moonset
- W
60°30°
Horizon
12:16 PM
1:09 AM
64°
Key figures
- Illuminated
- 58.2%
- Age
- 7.8 days
- Distance
- 370,200 km
- Apparent size
- 32.3′
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Lunation number
- 1262
Events on this date
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Perigee
The Moon's closest point to Earth on this orbit: 370,200 km.
Exact values
For Jan 7, 12:00 PM, midday on this date.
| Elongation from the Sun | 99.29° |
|---|---|
| Phase angle | 80.57° |
| Illuminated fraction | 58.19% |
| Altitude / azimuth | -3.3° / 71.0° |
| Right ascension / declination | 1h 37m / 12.49° |
| Ecliptic longitude / latitude | 26.95° / 2.26° |
| Libration in longitude / latitude | 0.37° / -2.05° |
| Sub-solar longitude / latitude | 80.53° / -1.46° |
| Position angle of the axis | 340.2° |
| Position angle of the bright limb | 249.1° |
| Apparent magnitude | -10.6 |
Directions are good to about a hundredth of a degree and the distance to about 50 km; more digits would not mean anything.