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The Moon on Friday, September 22, 1944: Waxing Crescent, 21% lit

Waxing · 21.4% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 24°

Moon age

5.0days

Moon phase on September 22, 1944Waxing Crescent

Friday 22 September 1944397,576 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, September 22, 1944, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 21.4% of its visible face lit, 5.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

21.4%Illumination at noon UTC
5.0 dMoon age
397,576 km247,042 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (24°)
30.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 22, 1944 is on Monday, October 2, 1944 at 04:22 UTC, 10 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, September 17, 1944 at 12:37 UTC, 5 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Sunday, September 17, 194412:37
First Quarter (after)Monday, September 25, 194412:07

The Moon around September 22

More about this date

Friday, September 22, 1944 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of September 17, 1944 to the new moon of October 17, 1944, a cycle of 29.71 days.