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The Moon on Wednesday, September 22, 1948: Waning Gibbous, 85% lit

Waning · 85.0% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 14°

Moon age

19.0days

Moon phase on September 22, 1948Waning Gibbous

Wednesday 22 September 1948394,853 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, September 22, 1948, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 85.0% of its visible face lit, 19.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

85.0%Illumination at noon UTC
19.0 dMoon age
394,853 km245,350 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (15°)
30.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 22, 1948 is on Saturday, September 18, 1948 at 09:43 UTC, 4 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, October 2, 1948 at 19:42 UTC, 10 days later.

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

The Moon around September 22

More about this date

Wednesday, September 22, 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.