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The Moon on Sunday, September 19, 1976: Waning Crescent, 23% lit

Waning · 23.2% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 29°

Moon age

25.0days

Moon phase on September 19, 1976Waning Crescent

Sunday 19 September 1976382,427 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, September 19, 1976, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 23.2% of its visible face lit, 25.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

23.2%Illumination at noon UTC
25.0 dMoon age
382,427 km237,629 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (29°)
31.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

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

The Moon around September 19

More about this date

Sunday, September 19, 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.