The Moon on this date
Moon on Thursday, July 31, 2025
Waxing Crescent
42.0% illuminated · waxing
Shown at midday from Columbus, US.
Rise, set and path
Times for Columbus, US
- Moonrise
- E
- Highest
- 34°
- Moonset
- W
60°30°
Horizon
1:31 PM
11:59 PM
34°
Key figures
- Illuminated
- 42.0%
- Age
- 6.9 days
- Distance
- 403,200 km
- Apparent size
- 29.6′
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Lunation number
- 1269
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 Jul 31, 12:00 PM, midday on this date.
| Elongation from the Sun | 80.59° |
|---|---|
| Phase angle | 99.24° |
| Illuminated fraction | 41.97% |
| Altitude / azimuth | -16.7° / 95.2° |
| Right ascension / declination | 13h 44m / -14.36° |
| Ecliptic longitude / latitude | 209.30° / -3.35° |
| Libration in longitude / latitude | 2.46° / 4.62° |
| Sub-solar longitude / latitude | 100.98° / 1.04° |
| Position angle of the axis | 19.7° |
| Position angle of the bright limb | 291.4° |
| Apparent magnitude | -9.6 |
Directions are good to about a hundredth of a degree and the distance to about 50 km; more digits would not mean anything.