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The Moon on Saturday, September 30, 1978: Waning Crescent, 3% lit

Waning · 3.3% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 16°

Moon age

27.8days

Moon phase on September 30, 1978Waning Crescent

Saturday 30 September 1978395,776 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, September 30, 1978, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 3.3% of its visible face lit, 27.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

3.3%Illumination at noon UTC
27.8 dMoon age
395,776 km245,923 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (16°)
30.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 30, 1978 is on Saturday, September 16, 1978 at 19:01 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, October 2, 1978 at 06:41 UTC, 2 days later.

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

The Moon around September 30

More about this date

Saturday, September 30, 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.