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The Moon on Wednesday, September 18, 1957: Waning Crescent, 36% lit

Waning · 35.8% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 12°

Moon age

24.0days

Moon phase on September 18, 1957Waning Crescent

Wednesday 18 September 1957374,384 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, September 18, 1957, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 35.8% of its visible face lit, 24.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

35.8%Illumination at noon UTC
24.0 dMoon age
374,384 km232,631 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (12°)
31.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 18, 1957 is on Monday, September 9, 1957 at 04:55 UTC, 9 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, September 23, 1957 at 19:19 UTC, 5 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Tuesday, September 17, 195704:02
New Moon (after)Monday, September 23, 195719:19

The Moon around September 18

More about this date

Wednesday, September 18, 1957 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 25, 1957 to the new moon of September 23, 1957, a cycle of 29.32 days.