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The Moon on Sunday, September 19, 1948: Waning Gibbous, 99% lit

Waning · 98.9% lit · ♈︎ Aries 08°

Moon age

16.0days

Moon phase on September 19, 1948Waning Gibbous

Sunday 19 September 1948403,130 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, September 19, 1948, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 98.9% of its visible face lit, 16.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

98.9%Illumination at noon UTC
16.0 dMoon age
403,130 km250,494 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (8°)
29.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 19, 1948 is on Saturday, September 18, 1948 at 09:43 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, October 2, 1948 at 19:42 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Saturday, September 18, 194809:43
Last Quarter (after)Sunday, September 26, 194805:07

The Moon around September 19

More about this date

Sunday, September 19, 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.