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The Moon on Sunday, September 10, 1978: First Quarter, 54% lit

Waxing · 54.2% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 22°

First Quarter at

03:20UTC

Moon phase on September 10, 1978First Quarter

Sunday 10 September 1978371,713 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, September 10, 1978, the Moon was a First Quarter: 54.2% of its visible face lit, 7.8 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

54.2%Illumination at noon UTC
7.8 dMoon age
371,713 km230,972 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (22°)
32.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 10, 1978 is on Saturday, September 16, 1978 at 19:01 UTC, 6 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, September 2, 1978 at 16:09 UTC, 8 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Saturday, September 2, 197816:09
First Quarter (this day)Sunday, September 10, 197803:20
Full Moon (after)Saturday, September 16, 197819:01

The Moon around September 10

More about this date

Sunday, September 10, 1978 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of September 2, 1978 to the new moon of October 2, 1978, a cycle of 29.61 days.