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The Moon on Friday, September 4, 1959: Waxing Crescent, 3% lit

Waxing · 2.5% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 29°

Moon age

1.4days

Moon phase on September 4, 1959Waxing Crescent

Friday 4 September 1959372,944 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, September 4, 1959, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 2.5% of its visible face lit, 1.4 days after the new moon and growing each night.

2.5%Illumination at noon UTC
1.4 dMoon age
372,944 km231,736 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (29°)
32.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 4, 1959 is on Thursday, September 17, 1959 at 00:52 UTC, 13 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, September 3, 1959 at 01:56 UTC, 1 day earlier.

The Moon around September 4

More about this date

Friday, September 4, 1959 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of September 3, 1959 to the new moon of October 2, 1959, a cycle of 29.44 days.