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The Moon on Wednesday, September 3, 1975: Waning Crescent, 8% lit

Waning · 8.0% lit · ♌︎ Leo 07°

Moon age

27.0days

Moon phase on September 3, 1975Waning Crescent

Wednesday 3 September 1975363,933 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, September 3, 1975, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 8.0% of its visible face lit, 27.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

8.0%Illumination at noon UTC
27.0 dMoon age
363,933 km226,137 mi from Earth
♌︎ LeoMoon sign (8°)
32.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 3, 1975 is on Thursday, August 21, 1975 at 19:48 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, September 5, 1975 at 19:19 UTC, 2 days later.

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

The Moon around September 3

More about this date

Wednesday, September 3, 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.