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The Moon on Friday, September 17, 1976: Waning Crescent, 42% lit

Waning · 42.5% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 03°

Moon age

23.0days

Moon phase on September 17, 1976Waning Crescent

Friday 17 September 1976393,757 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, September 17, 1976, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 42.5% of its visible face lit, 23.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

42.5%Illumination at noon UTC
23.0 dMoon age
393,757 km244,669 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (4°)
30.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 17, 1976 is on Wednesday, September 8, 1976 at 12:52 UTC, 9 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, September 23, 1976 at 19:55 UTC, 6 days later.

The Moon around September 17

More about this date

Friday, September 17, 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.