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The Moon on Sunday, September 27, 1970: Waning Crescent, 9% lit

Waning · 8.5% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 00°

Moon age

26.6days

Moon phase on September 27, 1970Waning Crescent

Sunday 27 September 1970405,847 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, September 27, 1970, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 8.5% of its visible face lit, 26.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

8.5%Illumination at noon UTC
26.6 dMoon age
405,847 km252,182 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (0°)
29.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 27, 1970 is on Tuesday, September 15, 1970 at 11:09 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, September 30, 1970 at 14:32 UTC, 3 days later.

The Moon around September 27

More about this date

Sunday, September 27, 1970 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 31, 1970 to the new moon of September 30, 1970, a cycle of 29.69 days.