Skip to content
The Moon on Sunday, September 4, 1960: Waxing Gibbous, 99% lit

Waxing · 98.7% lit · ♒︎ Aquarius 28°

Moon age

13.1days

Moon phase on September 4, 1960Waxing Gibbous

Sunday 4 September 1960365,980 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, September 4, 1960, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 98.7% of its visible face lit, 13.1 days after the new moon and growing each night.

98.7%Illumination at noon UTC
13.1 dMoon age
365,980 km227,409 mi from Earth
♒︎ AquariusMoon sign (29°)
32.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 4, 1960 is on Monday, September 5, 1960 at 11:19 UTC, 1 day later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, August 22, 1960 at 09:15 UTC, 13 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Monday, August 29, 196019:22
Full Moon (after)Monday, September 5, 196011:19

The Moon around September 4

More about this date

Sunday, September 4, 1960 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 22, 1960 to the new moon of September 20, 1960, a cycle of 29.58 days.