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The Moon on Thursday, September 2, 1954: Waxing Crescent, 23% lit

Waxing · 23.0% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 06°

Moon age

5.1days

Moon phase on September 2, 1954Waxing Crescent

Thursday 2 September 1954404,891 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, September 2, 1954, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 23.0% of its visible face lit, 5.1 days after the new moon and growing each night.

23.0%Illumination at noon UTC
5.1 dMoon age
404,891 km251,588 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (7°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 2, 1954 is on Sunday, September 12, 1954 at 20:20 UTC, 10 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, August 28, 1954 at 10:21 UTC, 5 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Saturday, August 28, 195410:21
First Quarter (after)Sunday, September 5, 195412:29

The Moon around September 2

More about this date

Thursday, September 2, 1954 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 28, 1954 to the new moon of September 27, 1954, a cycle of 29.60 days.