The Moon on this date
Moon on Sunday, September 22, 2069
Waxing Crescent
40.3% illuminated · waxing
Shown at midday from Columbus, US.
Rise, set and path
Times for Columbus, US
- Moonrise
- SE
- Highest
- 30°
- Moonset
- SW
60°30°
Horizon
1:49 PM
11:50 PM
30°
Key figures
- Illuminated
- 40.3%
- Age
- 7.2 days
- Distance
- 400,700 km
- Apparent size
- 29.8′
- Constellation
- Ophiuchus
- Lunation number
- 1815
Events on this date
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Moon and Uranus close together
They pass 3.4° apart in the sky.
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September equinox
Day and night are nearly equal. Autumn begins in the northern hemisphere and spring in the southern.
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Mercury at greatest elongation
18° from the Sun in the morning sky, its best showing before sunrise.
Exact values
For Sep 22, 12:00 PM, midday on this date.
| Elongation from the Sun | 78.63° |
|---|---|
| Phase angle | 101.20° |
| Illuminated fraction | 40.29% |
| Altitude / azimuth | -19.5° / 99.6° |
| Right ascension / declination | 17h 13m / -19.37° |
| Ecliptic longitude / latitude | 258.88° / 3.61° |
| Libration in longitude / latitude | -4.26° / -4.21° |
| Sub-solar longitude / latitude | 96.31° / -0.94° |
| Position angle of the axis | 5.5° |
| Position angle of the bright limb | 273.8° |
| 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.