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The Moon on Tuesday, September 12, 1944: Waning Crescent, 21% lit

Waning · 21.5% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 24°

Moon age

24.6days

Moon phase on September 12, 1944Waning Crescent

Tuesday 12 September 1944397,897 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, September 12, 1944, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 21.5% of its visible face lit, 24.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

21.5%Illumination at noon UTC
24.6 dMoon age
397,897 km247,242 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (25°)
30.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 12, 1944 is on Saturday, September 2, 1944 at 20:21 UTC, 10 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, September 17, 1944 at 12:37 UTC, 5 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Saturday, September 9, 194412:03
New Moon (after)Sunday, September 17, 194412:37

The Moon around September 12

More about this date

Tuesday, September 12, 1944 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 18, 1944 to the new moon of September 17, 1944, a cycle of 29.68 days.