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The Moon on Monday, September 25, 1978: Waning Crescent, 38% lit

Waning · 38.0% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 16°

Moon age

22.8days

Moon phase on September 25, 1978Waning Crescent

Monday 25 September 1978404,340 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Monday, September 25, 1978, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 38.0% of its visible face lit, 22.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

38.0%Illumination at noon UTC
22.8 dMoon age
404,340 km251,245 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (16°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 25, 1978 is on Saturday, September 16, 1978 at 19:01 UTC, 9 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, October 2, 1978 at 06:41 UTC, 7 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Sunday, September 24, 197805:08
New Moon (after)Monday, October 2, 197806:41

The Moon around September 25

More about this date

Monday, September 25, 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.