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The Moon on Sunday, September 9, 1979: Waning Gibbous, 87% lit

Waning · 86.9% lit · ♈︎ Aries 28°

Moon age

17.8days

Moon phase on September 9, 1979Waning Gibbous

Sunday 9 September 1979366,822 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, September 9, 1979, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 86.9% of its visible face lit, 17.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

86.9%Illumination at noon UTC
17.8 dMoon age
366,822 km227,932 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (29°)
32.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 9, 1979 is on Thursday, September 6, 1979 at 10:59 UTC, 3 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, September 21, 1979 at 09:47 UTC, 12 days later.

The Moon around September 9

More about this date

Sunday, September 9, 1979 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 22, 1979 to the new moon of September 21, 1979, a cycle of 29.69 days.