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The Moon on Tuesday, September 9, 1947: Waning Crescent, 35% lit

Waning · 35.1% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 03°

Moon age

24.0days

Moon phase on September 9, 1947Waning Crescent

Tuesday 9 September 1947368,687 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, September 9, 1947, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 35.1% of its visible face lit, 24.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

35.1%Illumination at noon UTC
24.0 dMoon age
368,687 km229,092 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (3°)
32.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 9, 1947 is on Sunday, August 31, 1947 at 16:34 UTC, 9 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, September 14, 1947 at 19:28 UTC, 5 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Monday, September 8, 194703:57
New Moon (after)Sunday, September 14, 194719:28

The Moon around September 9

More about this date

Tuesday, September 9, 1947 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 16, 1947 to the new moon of September 14, 1947, a cycle of 29.34 days.