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The Moon on Sunday, September 11, 1949: Waning Gibbous, 86% lit

Waning · 85.8% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 02°

Moon age

18.3days

Moon phase on September 11, 1949Waning Gibbous

Sunday 11 September 1949405,390 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, September 11, 1949, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 85.8% of its visible face lit, 18.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

85.8%Illumination at noon UTC
18.3 dMoon age
405,390 km251,898 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (3°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 11, 1949 is on Wednesday, September 7, 1949 at 10:00 UTC, 4 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, September 22, 1949 at 12:21 UTC, 11 days later.

The Moon around September 11

More about this date

Sunday, September 11, 1949 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 24, 1949 to the new moon of September 22, 1949, a cycle of 29.35 days.