Skip to content
The Moon on Friday, September 30, 1949: Waxing Gibbous, 64% lit

Waxing · 63.8% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 22°

Moon age

8.0days

Moon phase on September 30, 1949Waxing Gibbous

Friday 30 September 1949388,836 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, September 30, 1949, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 63.8% of its visible face lit, 8.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

63.8%Illumination at noon UTC
8.0 dMoon age
388,836 km241,612 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (23°)
30.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 30, 1949 is on Friday, October 7, 1949 at 02:53 UTC, 7 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, September 22, 1949 at 12:21 UTC, 8 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Thursday, September 29, 194904:19
Full Moon (after)Friday, October 7, 194902:53

The Moon around September 30

More about this date

Friday, September 30, 1949 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of September 22, 1949 to the new moon of October 21, 1949, a cycle of 29.38 days.