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The Moon on Tuesday, September 7, 1948: Waxing Crescent, 22% lit

Waxing · 21.8% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 10°

Moon age

4.0days

Moon phase on September 7, 1948Waxing Crescent

Tuesday 7 September 1948372,301 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, September 7, 1948, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 21.8% of its visible face lit, 4.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

21.8%Illumination at noon UTC
4.0 dMoon age
372,301 km231,337 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (10°)
32.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 7, 1948 is on Saturday, September 18, 1948 at 09:43 UTC, 11 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, September 3, 1948 at 11:21 UTC, 4 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Friday, September 3, 194811:21
First Quarter (after)Friday, September 10, 194807:05

The Moon around September 7

More about this date

Tuesday, September 7, 1948 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of September 3, 1948 to the new moon of October 2, 1948, a cycle of 29.35 days.