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The Moon on Friday, September 26, 1969: Waning Gibbous, 99% lit

Waning · 99.4% lit · ♈︎ Aries 11°

Moon age

14.7days

Moon phase on September 26, 1969Waning Gibbous

Friday 26 September 1969375,657 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, September 26, 1969, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 99.4% of its visible face lit, 14.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

99.4%Illumination at noon UTC
14.7 dMoon age
375,657 km233,422 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (12°)
31.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 26, 1969 is on Thursday, September 25, 1969 at 20:21 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, September 11, 1969 at 19:56 UTC, 15 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Thursday, September 25, 196920:21
Last Quarter (after)Friday, October 3, 196911:05

The Moon around September 26

More about this date

Friday, September 26, 1969 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of September 11, 1969 to the new moon of October 11, 1969, a cycle of 29.57 days.