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The Moon on Friday, September 22, 1972: Waxing Gibbous, 99% lit

Waxing · 99.2% lit · ♓︎ Pisces 20°

Moon age

14.8days

Moon phase on September 22, 1972Waxing Gibbous

Friday 22 September 1972368,418 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, September 22, 1972, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 99.2% of its visible face lit, 14.8 days after the new moon and growing each night.

99.2%Illumination at noon UTC
14.8 dMoon age
368,418 km228,924 mi from Earth
♓︎ PiscesMoon sign (20°)
32.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 22, 1972 is on Saturday, September 23, 1972 at 04:07 UTC, 1 day later, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, September 7, 1972 at 17:29 UTC, 15 days earlier.

The Moon around September 22

More about this date

Friday, September 22, 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.