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The Moon on Wednesday, September 25, 1968: Waxing Crescent, 12% lit

Waxing · 12.0% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 12°

Moon age

3.0days

Moon phase on September 25, 1968Waxing Crescent

Wednesday 25 September 1968366,675 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, September 25, 1968, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 12.0% of its visible face lit, 3.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

12.0%Illumination at noon UTC
3.0 dMoon age
366,675 km227,841 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (13°)
32.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 25, 1968 is on Sunday, October 6, 1968 at 11:46 UTC, 11 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, September 22, 1968 at 11:08 UTC, 3 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Sunday, September 22, 196811:08
First Quarter (after)Sunday, September 29, 196805:07

The Moon around September 25

More about this date

Wednesday, September 25, 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.