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The Moon on Wednesday, September 29, 1954: Waxing Crescent, 6% lit

Waxing · 5.7% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 03°

Moon age

2.5days

Moon phase on September 29, 1954Waxing Crescent

Wednesday 29 September 1954405,488 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, September 29, 1954, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 5.7% of its visible face lit, 2.5 days after the new moon and growing each night.

5.7%Illumination at noon UTC
2.5 dMoon age
405,488 km251,959 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (3°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 29, 1954 is on Tuesday, October 12, 1954 at 05:10 UTC, 13 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, September 27, 1954 at 00:51 UTC, 2 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Monday, September 27, 195400:51
First Quarter (after)Tuesday, October 5, 195405:31

The Moon around September 29

More about this date

Wednesday, September 29, 1954 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of September 27, 1954 to the new moon of October 26, 1954, a cycle of 29.71 days.