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The Moon on Thursday, September 14, 1972: Waxing Crescent, 38% lit

Waxing · 37.9% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 07°

Moon age

6.8days

Moon phase on September 14, 1972Waxing Crescent

Thursday 14 September 1972404,162 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, September 14, 1972, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 37.9% of its visible face lit, 6.8 days after the new moon and growing each night.

37.9%Illumination at noon UTC
6.8 dMoon age
404,162 km251,135 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (8°)
29.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 14, 1972 is on Saturday, September 23, 1972 at 04:07 UTC, 9 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, September 7, 1972 at 17:29 UTC, 7 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Thursday, September 7, 197217:29
First Quarter (after)Friday, September 15, 197219:13

The Moon around September 14

More about this date

Thursday, September 14, 1972 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of September 7, 1972 to the new moon of October 7, 1972, a cycle of 29.61 days.