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The Moon on Friday, September 17, 1954: Waning Gibbous, 72% lit

Waning · 71.8% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 28°

Moon age

20.1days

Moon phase on September 17, 1954Waning Gibbous

Friday 17 September 1954366,823 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, September 17, 1954, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 71.8% of its visible face lit, 20.1 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

71.8%Illumination at noon UTC
20.1 dMoon age
366,823 km227,933 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (28°)
32.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 17, 1954 is on Sunday, September 12, 1954 at 20:20 UTC, 5 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, September 27, 1954 at 00:51 UTC, 10 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Sunday, September 12, 195420:20
Last Quarter (after)Sunday, September 19, 195411:11

The Moon around September 17

More about this date

Friday, September 17, 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.