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The Moon on Tuesday, September 29, 1959: Waning Crescent, 11% lit

Waning · 11.2% lit · ♌︎ Leo 26°

Moon age

26.4days

Moon phase on September 29, 1959Waning Crescent

Tuesday 29 September 1959381,916 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, September 29, 1959, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 11.2% of its visible face lit, 26.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

11.2%Illumination at noon UTC
26.4 dMoon age
381,916 km237,312 mi from Earth
♌︎ LeoMoon sign (27°)
31.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 29, 1959 is on Thursday, September 17, 1959 at 00:52 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, October 2, 1959 at 12:31 UTC, 3 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Friday, September 25, 195902:22
New Moon (after)Friday, October 2, 195912:31

The Moon around September 29

More about this date

Tuesday, September 29, 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.