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The Moon on Wednesday, September 30, 1959: Waning Crescent, 5% lit

Waning · 5.3% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 10°

Moon age

27.4days

Moon phase on September 30, 1959Waning Crescent

Wednesday 30 September 1959376,460 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, September 30, 1959, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 5.3% of its visible face lit, 27.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

5.3%Illumination at noon UTC
27.4 dMoon age
376,460 km233,921 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (10°)
31.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 30, 1959 is on Thursday, September 17, 1959 at 00:52 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, October 2, 1959 at 12:31 UTC, 2 days later.

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

The Moon around September 30

More about this date

Wednesday, September 30, 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.