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The Moon on Thursday, September 27, 1979: Waxing Crescent, 33% lit

Waxing · 32.5% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 13°

Moon age

6.1days

Moon phase on September 27, 1979Waxing Crescent

Thursday 27 September 1979386,435 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, September 27, 1979, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 32.5% of its visible face lit, 6.1 days after the new moon and growing each night.

32.5%Illumination at noon UTC
6.1 dMoon age
386,435 km240,120 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (13°)
30.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 27, 1979 is on Friday, October 5, 1979 at 19:35 UTC, 8 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, September 21, 1979 at 09:47 UTC, 6 days earlier.

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

The Moon around September 27

More about this date

Thursday, September 27, 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.