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The Moon on Tuesday, September 2, 1975: Waning Crescent, 15% lit

Waning · 15.5% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 23°

Moon age

26.0days

Moon phase on September 2, 1975Waning Crescent

Tuesday 2 September 1975369,137 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, September 2, 1975, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 15.5% of its visible face lit, 26.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

15.5%Illumination at noon UTC
26.0 dMoon age
369,137 km229,371 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (23°)
32.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 2, 1975 is on Thursday, August 21, 1975 at 19:48 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, September 5, 1975 at 19:19 UTC, 3 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Friday, August 29, 197523:20
New Moon (after)Friday, September 5, 197519:19

The Moon around September 2

More about this date

Tuesday, September 2, 1975 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 7, 1975 to the new moon of September 5, 1975, a cycle of 29.31 days.