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The Moon on Tuesday, September 26, 1978: Waning Crescent, 29% lit

Waning · 29.1% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 28°

Moon age

23.8days

Moon phase on September 26, 1978Waning Crescent

Tuesday 26 September 1978404,638 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, September 26, 1978, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 29.1% of its visible face lit, 23.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

29.1%Illumination at noon UTC
23.8 dMoon age
404,638 km251,430 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (28°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 26, 1978 is on Saturday, September 16, 1978 at 19:01 UTC, 10 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, October 2, 1978 at 06:41 UTC, 6 days later.

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

The Moon around September 26

More about this date

Tuesday, September 26, 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.