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The Moon on Friday, September 11, 1959: Waxing Gibbous, 68% lit

Waxing · 67.7% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 08°

Moon age

8.4days

Moon phase on September 11, 1959Waxing Gibbous

Friday 11 September 1959372,861 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, September 11, 1959, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 67.7% of its visible face lit, 8.4 days after the new moon and growing each night.

67.7%Illumination at noon UTC
8.4 dMoon age
372,861 km231,685 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (9°)
32.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 11, 1959 is on Thursday, September 17, 1959 at 00:52 UTC, 6 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, September 3, 1959 at 01:56 UTC, 8 days earlier.

The Moon around September 11

More about this date

Friday, September 11, 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.