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The Moon on Wednesday, September 29, 1948: Waning Crescent, 16% lit

Waning · 15.8% lit · ♌︎ Leo 19°

Moon age

26.0days

Moon phase on September 29, 1948Waning Crescent

Wednesday 29 September 1948363,167 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, September 29, 1948, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 15.8% of its visible face lit, 26.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

15.8%Illumination at noon UTC
26.0 dMoon age
363,167 km225,662 mi from Earth
♌︎ LeoMoon sign (20°)
32.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 29, 1948 is on Saturday, September 18, 1948 at 09:43 UTC, 11 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, October 2, 1948 at 19:42 UTC, 3 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Sunday, September 26, 194805:07
New Moon (after)Saturday, October 2, 194819:42

The Moon around September 29

More about this date

Wednesday, September 29, 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.