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The Moon on Thursday, September 29, 1983: Last Quarter, 54% lit

Waning · 53.9% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 01°

Last Quarter at

20:05UTC

Moon phase on September 29, 1983Last Quarter

Thursday 29 September 1983375,631 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, September 29, 1983, the Moon was a Last Quarter: 53.9% of its visible face lit, 22.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night. The exact Last Quarter happened at .

53.9%Illumination at noon UTC
22.4 dMoon age
375,631 km233,406 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (1°)
31.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 29, 1983 is on Thursday, September 22, 1983 at 06:36 UTC, 7 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, October 6, 1983 at 11:16 UTC, 7 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Thursday, September 22, 198306:36
Last Quarter (this day)Thursday, September 29, 198320:05
New Moon (after)Thursday, October 6, 198311:16

The Moon around September 29

More about this date

Thursday, September 29, 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.