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The Moon on Tuesday, September 22, 1959: Waning Gibbous, 74% lit

Waning · 73.8% lit · ♊︎ Gemini 00°

Moon age

19.4days

Moon phase on September 22, 1959Waning Gibbous

Tuesday 22 September 1959404,515 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, September 22, 1959, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 73.8% of its visible face lit, 19.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

73.8%Illumination at noon UTC
19.4 dMoon age
404,515 km251,354 mi from Earth
♊︎ GeminiMoon sign (0°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 22, 1959 is on Thursday, September 17, 1959 at 00:52 UTC, 5 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, October 2, 1959 at 12:31 UTC, 10 days later.

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

The Moon around September 22

More about this date

Tuesday, September 22, 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.