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The Moon on Sunday, September 27, 1981: Waning Crescent, 1% lit

Waning · 0.6% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 26°

Moon age

28.9days

Moon phase on September 27, 1981Waning Crescent

Sunday 27 September 1981393,429 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, September 27, 1981, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 0.6% of its visible face lit, 28.9 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

0.6%Illumination at noon UTC
28.9 dMoon age
393,429 km244,465 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (26°)
30.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 27, 1981 is on Monday, September 14, 1981 at 03:09 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, September 28, 1981 at 04:07 UTC, 1 day later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Sunday, September 20, 198119:48
New Moon (after)Monday, September 28, 198104:07

The Moon around September 27

More about this date

Sunday, September 27, 1981 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 29, 1981 to the new moon of September 28, 1981, a cycle of 29.56 days.