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The Moon on Sunday, September 17, 1978: Waning Gibbous, 99% lit

Waning · 99.3% lit · ♈︎ Aries 03°

Moon age

14.8days

Moon phase on September 17, 1978Waning Gibbous

Sunday 17 September 1978370,299 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, September 17, 1978, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 99.3% of its visible face lit, 14.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

99.3%Illumination at noon UTC
14.8 dMoon age
370,299 km230,093 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (4°)
32.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 17, 1978 is on Saturday, September 16, 1978 at 19:01 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, October 2, 1978 at 06:41 UTC, 15 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Saturday, September 16, 197819:01
Last Quarter (after)Sunday, September 24, 197805:08

The Moon around September 17

More about this date

Sunday, September 17, 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.