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The Moon on Sunday, September 12, 1976: Waning Gibbous, 86% lit

Waning · 86.1% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 03°

Moon age

18.0days

Moon phase on September 12, 1976Waning Gibbous

Sunday 12 September 1976405,208 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, September 12, 1976, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 86.1% of its visible face lit, 18.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

86.1%Illumination at noon UTC
18.0 dMoon age
405,208 km251,784 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (4°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 12, 1976 is on Wednesday, September 8, 1976 at 12:52 UTC, 4 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, September 23, 1976 at 19:55 UTC, 11 days later.

The Moon around September 12

More about this date

Sunday, September 12, 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.