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The Moon on Thursday, September 30, 1954: Waxing Crescent, 11% lit

Waxing · 10.8% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 14°

Moon age

3.5days

Moon phase on September 30, 1954Waxing Crescent

Thursday 30 September 1954406,000 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, September 30, 1954, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 10.8% of its visible face lit, 3.5 days after the new moon and growing each night.

10.8%Illumination at noon UTC
3.5 dMoon age
406,000 km252,276 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (15°)
29.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 30, 1954 is on Tuesday, October 12, 1954 at 05:10 UTC, 12 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, September 27, 1954 at 00:51 UTC, 3 days earlier.

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

The Moon around September 30

More about this date

Thursday, September 30, 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.