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The Moon on Thursday, September 21, 1916: Waning Crescent, 29% lit

Waning · 29.3% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 22°

Moon age

23.8days

Moon phase on September 21, 1916Waning Crescent

Thursday 21 September 1916404,587 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, September 21, 1916, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 29.3% of its visible face lit, 23.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

29.3%Illumination at noon UTC
23.8 dMoon age
404,587 km251,399 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (23°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 21, 1916 is on Monday, September 11, 1916 at 20:31 UTC, 10 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, September 27, 1916 at 07:34 UTC, 6 days later.

The Moon around September 21

More about this date

Thursday, September 21, 1916 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 28, 1916 to the new moon of September 27, 1916, a cycle of 29.59 days.