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The Moon on Tuesday, September 25, 1979: Waxing Crescent, 15% lit

Waxing · 15.3% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 17°

Moon age

4.1days

Moon phase on September 25, 1979Waxing Crescent

Tuesday 25 September 1979394,730 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, September 25, 1979, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 15.3% of its visible face lit, 4.1 days after the new moon and growing each night.

15.3%Illumination at noon UTC
4.1 dMoon age
394,730 km245,273 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (18°)
30.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 25, 1979 is on Friday, October 5, 1979 at 19:35 UTC, 10 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, September 21, 1979 at 09:47 UTC, 4 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Friday, September 21, 197909:47
First Quarter (after)Saturday, September 29, 197904:20

The Moon around September 25

More about this date

Tuesday, September 25, 1979 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of September 21, 1979 to the new moon of October 21, 1979, a cycle of 29.69 days.