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The Moon on Sunday, September 22, 1968: New Moon, 0% lit

Waxing · 0.0% lit · ♎︎ Libra 00°

New Moon at

11:08UTC

Moon phase on September 22, 1968New Moon

Sunday 22 September 1968372,870 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, September 22, 1968, the Moon was a New Moon: 0.0% of its visible face lit, 29.5 days after the new moon and between the Earth and the Sun, so it is not visible. The exact New Moon happened at .

0.0%Illumination at noon UTC
29.5 dMoon age
372,870 km231,691 mi from Earth
♎︎ LibraMoon sign (0°)
32.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
NewDark side faces Earth

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 22, 1968 is on Sunday, October 6, 1968 at 11:46 UTC, 14 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, September 22, 1968 at 11:08 UTC, the same day.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Saturday, September 14, 196820:31
New Moon (this day)Sunday, September 22, 196811:08
First Quarter (after)Sunday, September 29, 196805:07

The Moon around September 22

More about this date

Sunday, September 22, 1968 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of September 22, 1968 to the new moon of October 21, 1968, a cycle of 29.44 days.