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The Moon on Thursday, September 26, 1968: Waxing Crescent, 21% lit

Waxing · 20.6% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 27°

Moon age

4.0days

Moon phase on September 26, 1968Waxing Crescent

Thursday 26 September 1968366,822 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, September 26, 1968, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 20.6% of its visible face lit, 4.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

20.6%Illumination at noon UTC
4.0 dMoon age
366,822 km227,932 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (27°)
32.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 26, 1968 is on Sunday, October 6, 1968 at 11:46 UTC, 10 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, September 22, 1968 at 11:08 UTC, 4 days earlier.

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

The Moon around September 26

More about this date

Thursday, September 26, 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.