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The Moon on Sunday, September 30, 1956: Waning Crescent, 18% lit

Waning · 17.8% lit · ♌︎ Leo 17°

Moon age

25.7days

Moon phase on September 30, 1956Waning Crescent

Sunday 30 September 1956366,141 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, September 30, 1956, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 17.8% of its visible face lit, 25.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

17.8%Illumination at noon UTC
25.7 dMoon age
366,141 km227,509 mi from Earth
♌︎ LeoMoon sign (18°)
32.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 30, 1956 is on Thursday, September 20, 1956 at 03:19 UTC, 10 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, October 4, 1956 at 04:25 UTC, 4 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Thursday, September 27, 195611:25
New Moon (after)Thursday, October 4, 195604:25

The Moon around September 30

More about this date

Sunday, September 30, 1956 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of September 4, 1956 to the new moon of October 4, 1956, a cycle of 29.39 days.