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The Moon on Friday, September 15, 1972: First Quarter, 47% lit

Waxing · 47.3% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 19°

First Quarter at

19:13UTC

Moon phase on September 15, 1972First Quarter

Friday 15 September 1972402,192 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, September 15, 1972, the Moon was a First Quarter: 47.3% of its visible face lit, 7.8 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

47.3%Illumination at noon UTC
7.8 dMoon age
402,192 km249,910 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (19°)
29.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 15, 1972 is on Saturday, September 23, 1972 at 04:07 UTC, 8 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, September 7, 1972 at 17:29 UTC, 8 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Thursday, September 7, 197217:29
First Quarter (this day)Friday, September 15, 197219:13
Full Moon (after)Saturday, September 23, 197204:07

The Moon around September 15

More about this date

Friday, September 15, 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.