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The Moon on Wednesday, September 22, 1976: Waning Crescent, 3% lit

Waning · 2.7% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 11°

Moon age

28.0days

Moon phase on September 22, 1976Waning Crescent

Wednesday 22 September 1976365,761 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, September 22, 1976, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 2.7% of its visible face lit, 28.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

2.7%Illumination at noon UTC
28.0 dMoon age
365,761 km227,273 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (11°)
32.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 22, 1976 is on Wednesday, September 8, 1976 at 12:52 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, September 23, 1976 at 19:55 UTC, 1 day later.

The Moon around September 22

More about this date

Wednesday, September 22, 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.