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The Moon on Sunday, September 23, 1951: Last Quarter, 47% lit

Waning · 47.1% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 03°

Last Quarter at

04:13UTC

Moon phase on September 23, 1951Last Quarter

Sunday 23 September 1951404,206 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, September 23, 1951, the Moon was a Last Quarter: 47.1% of its visible face lit, 22.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night. The exact Last Quarter happened at .

47.1%Illumination at noon UTC
22.0 dMoon age
404,206 km251,162 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (3°)
29.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 23, 1951 is on Saturday, September 15, 1951 at 12:38 UTC, 8 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, October 1, 1951 at 01:57 UTC, 8 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Saturday, September 15, 195112:38
Last Quarter (this day)Sunday, September 23, 195104:13
New Moon (after)Monday, October 1, 195101:57

The Moon around September 23

More about this date

Sunday, September 23, 1951 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of September 1, 1951 to the new moon of October 1, 1951, a cycle of 29.55 days.