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The Moon on Tuesday, September 20, 1955: Waxing Crescent, 18% lit

Waxing · 18.0% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 16°

Moon age

4.2days

Moon phase on September 20, 1955Waxing Crescent

Tuesday 20 September 1955399,051 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, September 20, 1955, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 18.0% of its visible face lit, 4.2 days after the new moon and growing each night.

18.0%Illumination at noon UTC
4.2 dMoon age
399,051 km247,959 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (17°)
29.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 20, 1955 is on Saturday, October 1, 1955 at 19:17 UTC, 11 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, September 16, 1955 at 06:19 UTC, 4 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Friday, September 16, 195506:19
First Quarter (after)Saturday, September 24, 195503:41

The Moon around September 20

More about this date

Tuesday, September 20, 1955 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of September 16, 1955 to the new moon of October 15, 1955, a cycle of 29.55 days.