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The Moon on Tuesday, September 21, 1954: Waning Crescent, 29% lit

Waning · 28.6% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 23°

Moon age

24.1days

Moon phase on September 21, 1954Waning Crescent

Tuesday 21 September 1954382,658 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, September 21, 1954, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 28.6% of its visible face lit, 24.1 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

28.6%Illumination at noon UTC
24.1 dMoon age
382,658 km237,773 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (23°)
31.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 21, 1954 is on Sunday, September 12, 1954 at 20:20 UTC, 9 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, September 27, 1954 at 00:51 UTC, 6 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Sunday, September 19, 195411:11
New Moon (after)Monday, September 27, 195400:51

The Moon around September 21

More about this date

Tuesday, September 21, 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.