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The Moon on Sunday, September 22, 1974: Waxing Crescent, 42% lit

Waxing · 42.3% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 20°

Moon age

6.4days

Moon phase on September 22, 1974Waxing Crescent

Sunday 22 September 1974394,864 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, September 22, 1974, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 42.3% of its visible face lit, 6.4 days after the new moon and growing each night.

42.3%Illumination at noon UTC
6.4 dMoon age
394,864 km245,357 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (20°)
30.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 22, 1974 is on Tuesday, October 1, 1974 at 10:38 UTC, 9 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, September 16, 1974 at 02:45 UTC, 6 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Monday, September 16, 197402:45
First Quarter (after)Monday, September 23, 197407:08

The Moon around September 22

More about this date

Sunday, September 22, 1974 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of September 16, 1974 to the new moon of October 15, 1974, a cycle of 29.40 days.