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The Moon on Sunday, September 23, 1973: Waning Crescent, 12% lit

Waning · 11.6% lit · ♌︎ Leo 20°

Moon age

26.4days

Moon phase on September 23, 1973Waning Crescent

Sunday 23 September 1973371,782 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, September 23, 1973, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 11.6% of its visible face lit, 26.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

11.6%Illumination at noon UTC
26.4 dMoon age
371,782 km231,014 mi from Earth
♌︎ LeoMoon sign (21°)
32.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 23, 1973 is on Wednesday, September 12, 1973 at 15:16 UTC, 11 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, September 26, 1973 at 13:54 UTC, 3 days later.

The Moon around September 23

More about this date

Sunday, September 23, 1973 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 28, 1973 to the new moon of September 26, 1973, a cycle of 29.44 days.