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The Moon on Wednesday, September 26, 1962: Waning Crescent, 5% lit

Waning · 4.8% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 07°

Moon age

27.4days

Moon phase on September 26, 1962Waning Crescent

Wednesday 26 September 1962404,497 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, September 26, 1962, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 4.8% of its visible face lit, 27.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

4.8%Illumination at noon UTC
27.4 dMoon age
404,497 km251,343 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (8°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 26, 1962 is on Friday, September 14, 1962 at 04:11 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, September 28, 1962 at 19:39 UTC, 2 days later.

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

The Moon around September 26

More about this date

Wednesday, September 26, 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.