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The Moon on Monday, September 26, 1955: Waxing Gibbous, 72% lit

Waxing · 71.8% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 28°

Moon age

10.2days

Moon phase on September 26, 1955Waxing Gibbous

Monday 26 September 1955398,338 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Monday, September 26, 1955, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 71.8% of its visible face lit, 10.2 days after the new moon and growing each night.

71.8%Illumination at noon UTC
10.2 dMoon age
398,338 km247,516 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (28°)
30.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 26, 1955 is on Saturday, October 1, 1955 at 19:17 UTC, 5 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, September 16, 1955 at 06:19 UTC, 10 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Saturday, September 24, 195503:41
Full Moon (after)Saturday, October 1, 195519:17

The Moon around September 26

More about this date

Monday, September 26, 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.