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The Moon on Sunday, September 5, 1937: Waxing Crescent, 1% lit

Waxing · 0.5% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 19°

Moon age

30.0days

Moon phase on September 5, 1937Waxing Crescent

Sunday 5 September 1937385,433 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, September 5, 1937, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 0.5% of its visible face lit, 30.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

0.5%Illumination at noon UTC
30.0 dMoon age
385,433 km239,497 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (19°)
31.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 5, 1937 is on Sunday, August 22, 1937 at 00:47 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, September 4, 1937 at 22:54 UTC, 1 day earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Saturday, September 4, 193722:54
First Quarter (after)Sunday, September 12, 193720:57

The Moon around September 5

More about this date

Sunday, September 5, 1937 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of September 4, 1937 to the new moon of October 4, 1937, a cycle of 29.54 days.