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The Moon on Friday, September 21, 1962: Waning Crescent, 43% lit

Waning · 43.0% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 06°

Moon age

22.4days

Moon phase on September 21, 1962Waning Crescent

Friday 21 September 1962386,487 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, September 21, 1962, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 43.0% of its visible face lit, 22.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

43.0%Illumination at noon UTC
22.4 dMoon age
386,487 km240,152 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (6°)
30.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 21, 1962 is on Friday, September 14, 1962 at 04:11 UTC, 7 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, September 28, 1962 at 19:39 UTC, 7 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Thursday, September 20, 196219:36
New Moon (after)Friday, September 28, 196219:39

The Moon around September 21

More about this date

Friday, September 21, 1962 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 30, 1962 to the new moon of September 28, 1962, a cycle of 29.69 days.