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The Moon on Friday, September 18, 1959: Waning Gibbous, 98% lit

Waning · 97.8% lit · ♈︎ Aries 11°

Moon age

15.4days

Moon phase on September 18, 1959Waning Gibbous

Friday 18 September 1959394,729 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, September 18, 1959, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 97.8% of its visible face lit, 15.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

97.8%Illumination at noon UTC
15.4 dMoon age
394,729 km245,273 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (12°)
30.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 18, 1959 is on Thursday, September 17, 1959 at 00:52 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, October 2, 1959 at 12:31 UTC, 14 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Thursday, September 17, 195900:52
Last Quarter (after)Friday, September 25, 195902:22

The Moon around September 18

More about this date

Friday, September 18, 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.