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The Moon on Friday, September 23, 1955: Waxing Crescent, 44% lit

Waxing · 44.0% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 22°

Moon age

7.2days

Moon phase on September 23, 1955Waxing Crescent

Friday 23 September 1955404,177 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, September 23, 1955, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 44.0% of its visible face lit, 7.2 days after the new moon and growing each night.

44.0%Illumination at noon UTC
7.2 dMoon age
404,177 km251,144 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (23°)
29.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 23, 1955 is on Saturday, October 1, 1955 at 19:17 UTC, 8 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, September 16, 1955 at 06:19 UTC, 7 days earlier.

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

The Moon around September 23

More about this date

Friday, September 23, 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.