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The Moon on Wednesday, September 21, 1983: Waxing Gibbous, 99% lit

Waxing · 99.2% lit · ♓︎ Pisces 19°

Moon age

14.4days

Moon phase on September 21, 1983Waxing Gibbous

Wednesday 21 September 1983402,554 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, September 21, 1983, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 99.2% of its visible face lit, 14.4 days after the new moon and growing each night.

99.2%Illumination at noon UTC
14.4 dMoon age
402,554 km250,136 mi from Earth
♓︎ PiscesMoon sign (19°)
29.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 21, 1983 is on Thursday, September 22, 1983 at 06:36 UTC, 1 day later, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, September 7, 1983 at 02:35 UTC, 14 days earlier.

The Moon around September 21

More about this date

Wednesday, September 21, 1983 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of September 7, 1983 to the new moon of October 6, 1983, a cycle of 29.36 days.