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The Moon on Sunday, September 5, 1976: Waxing Gibbous, 91% lit

Waxing · 90.5% lit · ♒︎ Aquarius 07°

Moon age

11.0days

Moon phase on September 5, 1976Waxing Gibbous

Sunday 5 September 1976387,674 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, September 5, 1976, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 90.5% of its visible face lit, 11.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

90.5%Illumination at noon UTC
11.0 dMoon age
387,674 km240,889 mi from Earth
♒︎ AquariusMoon sign (7°)
30.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 5, 1976 is on Wednesday, September 8, 1976 at 12:52 UTC, 3 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, August 25, 1976 at 11:01 UTC, 11 days earlier.

The Moon around September 5

More about this date

Sunday, September 5, 1976 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 25, 1976 to the new moon of September 23, 1976, a cycle of 29.37 days.