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The Moon on Sunday, September 7, 1969: Waning Crescent, 17% lit

Waning · 17.0% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 26°

Moon age

25.3days

Moon phase on September 7, 1969Waning Crescent

Sunday 7 September 1969404,636 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, September 7, 1969, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 17.0% of its visible face lit, 25.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

17.0%Illumination at noon UTC
25.3 dMoon age
404,636 km251,429 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (26°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 7, 1969 is on Wednesday, August 27, 1969 at 10:32 UTC, 11 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, September 11, 1969 at 19:56 UTC, 4 days later.

The Moon around September 7

More about this date

Sunday, September 7, 1969 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 13, 1969 to the new moon of September 11, 1969, a cycle of 29.61 days.