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The Moon on Tuesday, September 26, 1961: Waning Gibbous, 94% lit

Waning · 94.2% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 00°

Moon age

16.4days

Moon phase on September 26, 1961Waning Gibbous

Tuesday 26 September 1961368,958 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, September 26, 1961, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 94.2% of its visible face lit, 16.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

94.2%Illumination at noon UTC
16.4 dMoon age
368,958 km229,260 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (1°)
32.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 26, 1961 is on Sunday, September 24, 1961 at 11:33 UTC, 2 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, October 9, 1961 at 18:53 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Sunday, September 24, 196111:33
Last Quarter (after)Sunday, October 1, 196114:10

The Moon around September 26

More about this date

Tuesday, September 26, 1961 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of September 10, 1961 to the new moon of October 9, 1961, a cycle of 29.67 days.